Dingwall
The
Conflict of Bealach-na-Broige
About
the year of God 1299, there was an insurrection made against
the Earl of Ross by some of the people of that province, inhabiting
the mountains, called Clan Iver, Clan-tall-wigh, and Clan
Leawe. The Earl of Ross made such diligence that he apprehended
their captain, and imprisoned him at Dingwall, which so incensed
the Highlanders, that they pursued the Earl of Ross's second
son at Balnagown, took him and carried him along prisoner
with them, thinking thereby to get their captain relieved.
The
Munros and the Dingwalls, with some other of the Earl of Ross's
dependers, gathered their forces, and pursued the Highlanders
with all diligence; so, overtaking them at Bealach-na-Broig,
betwixt Ferrindonnell and Lochbrime, there ensued a cruel
fight, well fought on either side.
The
Clan Iver, Clan-tall-wigh, and Clan-Leawe, were almost all
utterly extinguished; the Munros had a sorrowful victory,
with great loss of their men, and carried back again the Earl
of Ross's son. The Laird of Kildun was there slain, with seven
score of the surname Dingwall. Divers of the Munros were slain
in this conflict; and, among the rest, there were killed eleven
of the house of Fowlis, that were to succeed one another,
so that the succession of the Fowlis fell unto a child then
lying in his cradle, for which service the Earl of Ross gave
divers lands to the Munros and the Dingwalls.
