Clans of Lorn & the Inner Isles
Argyll & Bute (north)
Oban, Mull, Iona and the country of the MacDougalls.
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Historic Places, Rebuilt · New
Explore Kilchurn Castle in 1700Enter →
The Campbells of Glenorchy's stronghold on its island in Loch Awe, garrisoned under Ben Cruachan.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · New
Explore Iona Abbey in 1500Enter →
The holy isle at its medieval height, the abbey, the high crosses and the kings' graves, under the Lordship of the Isles.
Families seated in Lorn & the Inner Isles
- Clan FletcherArrow-makers to the great clans, patriots in their own right.
- Clan MacDougallHeirs of Somerled, lords of Lorn.
- Clan MacQuarrieOf Ulva, and the Father of Australia.
- Clan MacleanOf Mull and Duart, Gillian of the Battle Axe's line.
- Clan MalcolmDisciples of Columba, admirals and aimers-high.
- Clan CampbellFrom Argyll, the great political clan of the west.
- Clan MacGregorThe persecuted clan, proscribed but never broken.
Historic ties to Lorn & the Inner Isles
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Lorn & the Inner Isles.
- George MacLeodThe Argyll and Sutherland Highlander turned Govan parish minister who rebuilt Iona Abbey with the unemployed shipbuilders of the Clyde.
- John MacDougall of LornThe Lord of Lorn at the head of Clan Dougall, the great sea-power of the western seaboard, whose Brooch of Lorn is held by his line at Dunollie to this day.
- Lachlan MacquarieThe Ulva-born British army officer who governed New South Wales from 1810 to 1821 and turned an open-air prison camp on the far side of the world into a self-governing settler society.
Stories told here
Legends set in Lorn & the Inner Isles, from any family that carries them.