![]() ![]() There are regular clan gatherings at Duart Castle and events elsewhere on Mull. This led to his being viewed as the father of the Scottish Gaelic renaissance. He wrote poems in Gaelic at a time when very few notable writers were doing so. Sorley MacLean was one of the most significant Scottish poets of the 20th century. There he founded, and was the first Grand Master of, the Grand Lodge of Freemasons in Paris. When this failed, their chief, Sir Hector Maclean, was exiled to France. ![]() Clan Maclean threw its muscle behind the Jacobite rising of 1715. Loyalty to the Stuart family, from the Battle of Inverkeithing in 1651 to the Battle of Culloden in 1746, did not help the clan’s fortunes. After the fall of the Lordship of the Isles at the end of the 15th century, the clan rose to prominence, and gained further lands at the Reformation, but the clan fell foul first of the Macdonalds, who resisted the Maclean influence and expansion, especially in Islay and then to the predatory nature of the Campbells of Argyll, who eventually took over the Duart family’s lands on Mull. There are six distinct branches of the clan, each of whom has, or had, its own chieftain, but the Chief of the name is Maclean of Duart and Morvern. It was the two sons of Gillean's great-great-grandson, Iain Dhu Maclean, who first settled the clan on the Isle of Mull, which has been the families spiritual home ever since. ![]() Clan Maclean came to hold power over large areas of the Highlands and Hebrides. His name comes from the Scottish Gaelic Gilleathain, meaning ‘son of the servant of St John’. The clan Maclean owes its name to a fearsome Scottish Chieftain named Gillean of the Battle Axe, who fought his way into the history books in the 13th century. This booking system and any information appearing on this page is provided for your information and convenience only and is not intended to be an endorsement by VisitScotland of the content of such linked websites, the quality of any accommodation listed, or of the services of any third party. VisitScotland does not have any control over the content or availability of any external website. If you proceed to make a booking you will leave our Website and visit a website owned and operated by a third party. Any booking you make will not be placed with VisitScotland and we will have no liability to you in respect of any booking. You may use this booking system to place direct bookings with third party accommodation providers. It is intended to provide real time availability information relating to accommodation which is also provided by third parties. This booking system and any information appearing on this page relating to the availability of any accommodation is provided by third parties and not by VisitScotland. ![]()
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