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- ↑ The Celtic Review, Vol. 6 No. 23 (January 1910) pp214-236
- ↑ "The Celtic review". Edinburgh : Macleod – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ "596 A.D. - The Battle of Raith | made by young people at Makewaves". Radiowaves.co.uk. 21 May 2009. Archived from the original on 23 December 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
- ↑ "Kirkcaldy Burgh and Schyre" (1924) pp42/3 published by the Fifeshire Advertiser (Macbean was also the paper's editor).
- ↑ "Lachlan Macbean". The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. Canterbury Press.
- ↑ "excerpt from Kirkcaldy Burgh and Schyre". Electricscotland.com. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
