Clan MacPhail

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Clan MacPhail
Conchie Dhu or Condochy Doye
Clan member crest badge Clan MacPhail.jpg
Crest: A stag salient
Motto“Memor Esto” (Be Mindful)
Profile
Region Highland
District Inverness
Plant badge Red whortleberry, bearberry,
Animal Stag
Pipe music The MacPhail's Banner (by Allan W.R. McBean)
Arms of the Chief Clan MacPhail.jpg
Clan MacPhail no longer has a chief, and is an armigerous clan
Seat Inverernie
Last ChiefPaul MacPhail
Diedearly 1900s
Septs of Clan MacPhail
MacFall, MacFaul, MacKail, MacKell, MacPhail, MacPhayll, MacVaaile, MacVail, MacVaill, MacVale, McFall, McFell, McPaul, McPhail, McPhaul, Paul and Paull
Allied clans
Rival clans

Clan MacPhail or the Sons of Paul is a Scottish clan of the Scottish Highlands. Known in Scottish Gaelic as Conchie Dhu or Condochy Doye, the clan is mainly associated with the confederation of Clan Chattan.

Contents

History

Origins

The original Gaelic name of this clan was Conchie Dhu or Condochy Doye.

With the Clan Chattan Federation

The MacPhails were always considered to be of old Clan Chattan stock and closely related to MacPhersons, MacBeans and other Cattanach families that together formed the Clan Chattan Federation. Cattanach is still a surname associated to these clans. [1] [2]

As Clan MacPhail proper

Originally the MacPhails had a stronghold until 1291 at Fassfern about 16 kilometers west of Fort William. [3]

The first MacPhails are reputed to have been descended from a Paul Cattanach. MacPhails, or Son of Paul, are mentioned early in the Kinrara manuscript stating that a Paul Gow MacPhail, "good sir" lived in the time of Duncan, 11th of MacKintosh. The term "good sir" was a custom mainly related to addressing clergymen. [4]

When the Chief of Clan MacKintosh, Angus, married the heiress of Clan Chattan in the 13th century, the majority of the Chattan families including most of Clan MacPhail moved to eastern Inverness-shire. [5] [6]

In 1414, the name appears in a Retour of Inquest on Donald Thane of Calder's succession to the lands of Dunmaglass, Gillemore M'Phale being one of the inquest. [4]

In 1547, a MacPhail, Duncan Makconquhy Dow leased half the towns of Tullich and Elrick. This lease was inherited through generations. [2]

In 1566, a Andrew MacPhail is described in the Burgh Court Book as “minister of Inverness and Petty in the Erse/(Gaelic) tongue”. [7]

In 1595, Andrew M'Phail, minister at the Kirk of Croy and Findla MakPhail, one of the beillis of Inverness appear in a contract between the magistrates of Inverness and a Robert Waus.

In 1631, another MacPhail entered into a long lease to Invernarnie with the Laird of Kilravock. For 1000 Pound Scots he was granted a wadset and long tack of Invernarnie, which faced the river Nairn and lay within the Barony of Strathnairn in the Parish of Daviot and Dunlichty. The land also included Duglass and Dullatur facing the river Findhorn. [8] These lands were held by descendants until 1773, when the lease was not renewed. The unity of the family was destroyed and a large portion drifted southward to Argyllshire and were largely absorbed into urban life. [9]

In 1662, records from Inverness show debt from failed business agreements resulted in a public horning issued against a Duncan MacPhail and again in 1669 against his son Paul and his business partner Alexander Shaw of Tordarroch. [10]

A number of Clan Chattan bonds however signed through the 17th and 18th centuries continued to have MacPhail signatures still indicating their stature in the Federation. [2]

Some of the Clan MacPhail chiefs included:

  • Duncan MakDonequhy Dow MacPhail in 1546 [11]
  • Paul MacPhail in 1689
  • Robert MacPhail in 1721
  • Alexander MacPhail in 1743

The MacPhails of Inverernie in the Strathnairn and the Shaws of Tordarroch buried their dead for generations in an enclosure adjoining the east wall of Dunlichty Kirk. [4]

The last lineal MacPhail chief, Paul MacPhail died in Australia in the early 1900s. [3] [12] [13] [14]

Conflicts and Feuds

As an integrated clan of the Chattan Federation, Clan MacPhail was obligated to answer the call of the superior Mackintosh Chief. More information on this aspect can be found on the Clan Chattan and Clan Mackintosh pages.

MacPhails were also involved individually in other conflicts. For example, around 1627, a Johne M'Phale of Inverness was recruited as a archer for Captain Alexander M'Naughtan in service of King Charles the 1st to support Protestants in France. [15]

Several MacPhails were apparently officers in the Mackintosh/Clan Chattan regiment in the '15. The heir to the MacPhail Chieftainship, was apparently deported to Virginia following his surrender after the Battle of Preston but died on board the ship. [16]

A MacPhail of the ’45 was evidently the last person to shake hands with Prince Charles Edward Stuart and to his death he never greeted anyone else with that hand. [17] Dr Charles Mackintosh of Drummond mentions in his Antiquarian Notes no 96 that when he lived in Gollanfield, in Petty, an old man of ninety known as John Oig told him he had known a Paul MacPhail of Ballenreich, who the day after the Battle of Culloden helped to dig a trench where many of the dead were interred and had known the man who had escaped with the Clan banner, which was the only one in the prince's army that did not fall in the enemy's hands. All the rest were burned by the common hangman in Edinburgh. [18] A auction of household goods of the Late Sir William Fraser and others in 1898 at Dowell's Auction House in Edinburgh presented a basket hilted sword said to have belonged to a MacPhail who had fought at Culloden, had been kept by his daughter Bell who eventually had sold it to Fraser. [19] Records also exist of the atrocities committed after the battle of which some MacPhails were victim to: "A woman brought to bed, Sunday before the battle, was Elspet MacPhail, in Gask; her husband is Donald MacIntosh, had her child born on the Sunday, who was called Alexander, of which one of the Dragoons took by the leg or thigh, and threw it about his hand, not head." [20]

Clan Symbols

Members of Clan MacPhail are entitled to wear a crest badge to show their allegiance to their clan chief. This crest badge contains the heraldic crest and heraldic motto of the clan chief. For Clan MacPhail, it is a Stag Salient. These elements, like the chief's coat of arms, are the heraldic property of the chief alone. The symbolism of Clan MacPhail is distinct from the majority of the Chattan Federation having no wildcat, but a stag. The most similar to this is with Clan Davidson, their close neighbors to the north. The Davidsons appears to have changed their crest to honor an important marriage to a Mackenzie of Gairloch and the MacPhails could have done something similar. The use of the stag with certain clans could also represent an association with the cult of Saint Giles. [21] [22]

Clan badges are usually worn on a tam o' shanter or attached at the shoulder of a lady's tartan sash. [23]

The Arms of the Clan MacPhail Chief. The MacPhail Arms.jpg
The Arms of the Clan MacPhail Chief.
Red Whortleberry: plant badge of Clan MacPhail. Vaccinium vitis-idaea 20060824 003.jpg
Red Whortleberry: plant badge of Clan MacPhail.
Clan MacPhail various tartans Clan MacPhail tartans.jpg
Clan MacPhail various tartans
Selection of a new Chief

In 2022, the clan has started the process to select a commander. [25]

Paul MacPhail, Chief of Clan MacPhail circa 1910 Paul MacPhail Chief of Clan MacPhail circa 1910.jpg
Paul MacPhail, Chief of Clan MacPhail circa 1910
Close association with Clan MacKintosh

Since the 15th century, Clan MacPhail was found mainly in the lands of Inverernie about 8 km west of Loch Moy, near the ancestral home of the MackIntosh's. [27] [28]

In 1490, a Donald MacPhail witnessed a bond between the Lairds of Mackintosh and Kilravock and two years later between Mackintosh and the Dunbars. This MacPhail is identified as a tenant of Dullatur according to the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. [29]

One of the earliest recorded MacPhail, a certain Gillies MacPhail married a Margaret Macintosh in 1500. [30] There was several other MacPhails that intermarried with MacKintoshes showing a close fraternity. [31]

A Anndra MacPhail, the parson of Croy wrote the history of the MacKintoshes down to the murder of the 15th chief in 1550 and that document has come to be known as the Croy Manuscript.

In 1708, a Coll MacDonell wrote to Paul MacPhail, who was the Chamberlain to the Laird of MacKintosh, explaining why he couldn't pay his rent, that had been due in 1707 and 1708, asking for relief. [32]

Close association with Clan MacBean

The MacPhail surname was also found with their neighbors and close relatives of Clan MacBean:

  • In 1490, Donald MacPhail of Clan MacBean witnessed a band between the lairds of MacIntosh and Kilravock.
  • In 1609, Angus MacPhail in Kinkell signed the Band of Union on behalf of Clan MacBean and as laird of Kinchyle in the Valuation Roll of 1644. [33]

Other Clans with smaller MacPhail Families

Other Clans also have small smatterings of MacPhails.

The other MacPhails of the East

In the Lands of Clan Grant

Records show Johannes McFaill was a parishioner in Duthil. Gillepatrik McFale lived in Glenurquhart in 1545. Duncan McFaill was a reader at Cromdale in 1584. Other variants of the name were noted later in Invera’en, Cromdale, Abernethy and Aberlour. [34]

The MacPhails that stayed in West

With Clan Cameron

The remnants of Clan MacPhail that stayed in the west and did not migrate with Clan MackIntosh in the 13th century, eventually integrated with Clan Cameron. They appear to have lived on Loch Eil at Fassfern. Some of these MacPhails were cited for cattle raiding with a Ewen Cameron on the Register of the Privy Council in 1547.

Variations on the name found with Clan Cameron include: MacKail, MacKell, MacPhail, MacVail, MacVaaile, MacVaill, MacVale and Paul. [35] [36]

With Clan MacDonell of Glengarry

Some of the remaining Lochaber MacPhails also became a sept of Clan MacDonell of Glengarry and were mainly settled around Laroche. A well known MacPhail from this group was Big Archibald MacPhail, a cattle drover, who attacked a group of Campbells near the village of Killin in 1646. [37] The Dewar Manuscripts Vol.1 which contains Gaelic folktales includes the life of Big Archibald MacPhail. [38]

Another Archibald MacPhail fell foul of Coil MacDonell who was authorized to regulate fishing in the local lochs. In 1809, a letter to officials at Inverness he states: "I have sent to you with Sergeant Donald Macdonell, one Archibald MacPhail to jail at Inverness. He ought at least to be banished to Botany Bay, or to send him on board one of Her Majesty's ships, which last punishment is too good for him.” [39]

Families of MacPhails were found throughout the West Highlands and Islands, including Glengarry, Glencoe, North Uist, Islay and Kintyre. [40] [41]

In the lands of Clan Campbell

The MacPhails were always associated with Ardchattan Priory which had been originally founded by Duncan MacDougall of Lorn. At least one monk was named MacPhail. The signature of David MacPhail is found on a number of monastic documents between 1552 and 1564, some of which are also signed by Sir John MacPhail, rector or parson of nearby Kilnynvir. There is also references to MacPhails being hereditary physicians to the MacDougalls. [42]

When Clan Campbell influence increased in the area, these MacPhails, shifted their allegiance to them. The records of the Thane of Cawdor state that:

  • In 1533, a Sir John Mcfaell, a pope's knight, witnessed a bond of Manrent.
  • “At the Arde on 14 February 1570, it was agreed and finalized between the honourable man John Campbell of Calder and his heirs that John Mcfaill, parson of Kilnynvir, John Mcfaill vicar of Kilmaille, Angus Mcfaill, Ewin Gillicallum, Iwir Sonnies and Dugall Mcfaill brother to the said John and their offspring become perpetual men to the said John Campbell of Calder and his heirs." [43]

Various MacPhails are also recorded in Campbell lands in the 17th and 18th century, apparently in one incident, after an argument with their neighbors, Macleans, moved inland to Argyll and Glenlyon. e.g. John MacPhail in Auchauaich around 1691. [44] [11] MacPhails were mainly found in a narrow gorge between Loch Awe and Loch Etive, with a few becoming ship wrights. [45] The ferry from Portachoillan was run by Malcolm MacPhail from about 1800, then by his son John MacPhail from 1830 to 1860, then by his sons Neil and John. [46]

Separate and Distinct Lines

With Clan Mackay

A sept of the Clan Mackay by the surname of Polson who are also known as Siol Phail are, according to Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet, descended from Neil, son of Neil, son of Donald Mackay, 5th of Strathnaver, chief of Clan Mackay. Although one of their ancestors, Neil Neilson Mackay, died fighting against his own Strathnaver kinsmen at the Battle of Drumnacoub in 1433, the Polsons later gravitated back towards their Strathnaver kindred.

In 1497, 1506, and 1511, Sir John Polson who was presbyter and later chanter of Caithness acted for Iye Roy Mackay, 10th of Strathnaver.

At the Battle of Torran Du in 1517, the Polsons supported the Clan Mackay against the Murrays of Aberscross. In a list of men in Sutherland capable of carrying arms during the Jacobite rising of 1745, a number of Polsons appear in the parishes of Loth and Kildonan. However, according to historian Angus Mackay writing in 1906, the sept was no longer numerically strong and many of them had adopted the surname MacPhail or were now signing themselves as Mackay. [47]

With Clan Macleod of Lewis

Late 18th century Clan MacLeod tradition has it that MacPhails in their lands are descendants of Páll, son of Bálki, or Paal Baalkeson, His name appears as Pol filius Boke in the medieval Chronicle of Mann and as Paal Baccas in the 19th century Bannatyne manuscript; a 13th-century Hebridean lord who was an ally of Olaf the Black, king of Mann and the Isles. The Bannatyne manuscript states that Paal Baccas had a natural son, from whom descended a family that held the island of Berneray and other lands on Harris under the MacLeods. Matheson proposed that the MacPhails, originally from the Sand district on North Uist, and those from Carloway on Lewis, derived their surname from Páll. [48] There is a township on the northern tip of the Island called Baile Mhicphail (Macphail's village).

A group of sea crags called the Flannan Isles off the Isle of Lewis was regarded as a refuge of sanctity, as well as being a rich source of seabirds. On Maol nam Both, are found two stone beehive houses named, the MacPhail bothies, which are said to be the remains of two monks' cells, part of a small early Celtic monastic settlement.

Donald MacDonald, in his book Tales and Traditions of the Lewis, dedicates a short chapter to the MacPhails of Lewis. “The MacPhails made their power felt throughout the ages, and we find that they were used as wardens by the MacLeods of Lewis and placed along the west coast...to prevent the Macaulays of Uig from passing north to raid the Morrison territory”. [49] [50]

Other Gaelic Derivatives

Irish Derivatives

McFall, McFaul and McPhails records are found clustered in Ulster especially around Antrim and Derry.They appear to date from the British Plantation period. These variants are in church registers of County Antrim. As an example, on August 29, 1824, Sarah Jane, daughter of William McFaul, was christened at Ballymena in that county. [51]

Other derivations found include MacPhóil, MacPóil, MacPaul, MacVail, Vail, Paulson, Polson and Powlson [52]

Manx Derivatives (no known connection)

MacPhaayl, Maelfabhail; From the book, Manx Names of 1890 by Arthur William Moore: "Phail is Anglicised from Maelfabhail. Maelfabhail, son of Muircheartach, slain by the Norsemen"

Other Complexities

Status

Today MacPhails can generally track their origins from these four main migrations in Scotland, mainly showing fealty to larger clans in those regions:

Diaspora MacPhails can also be found in significant numbers in the following countries:

In Folklore

Mermaid of Corrivrekin

The poet John Leyden, was an enthusiastic collector of old folklore. He compiled a poem "The mermaid". It is based on a gaelic traditional ballad, called MacPhail of Colonsay, and the Mermaid of Corrivrekin. The story states that this MacPhail was carried off by a mermaid, that they lived together in a grotto beneath the sea and had five children, but finally he tired of her and escaped to land. [68]

Ballad of Mull

A cairn near Loch Spelve celebrates Dugald MacPhail (1819-1887), a bard who composed Ant-Muileach (The Isle of Mull) which became the island's anthem. [69] These MacPhail's where apparently known as cattle drovers for hundreds of years in this area.

Notable Descendants

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Locations of MacPhail pre industrial historical residential records

See also

Notes

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