Clans of Skye

Families seated in Skye

• Clan MacDonaldThe largest of the Highland clans, Lords of the Isles.
• Clan MacleanOf Mull and Duart, Gillian of the Battle Axe's line.
• Clan MacLeodOf Dunvegan, on Skye, keepers of the Fairy Flag.

Historic ties to Skye

Families with historic but not core ground here.

• Clan Morrison

Champions made here

Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Skye.

• Flora MacDonaldThe twenty-four-year-old South Uist woman whose courage carried Bonnie Prince Charlie to safety across the sea to Skye, and whose name has stood for fidelity ever since.
• Sorley MacLeanThe Raasay-born schoolteacher who made twentieth-century Gaelic a modernist literary language.