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Mac an t- Strònaich's Cave

Mac an t-Srònaich was in Lewis in the fourth decade of last century (1840s). All the indications are that he was a fugitive from justice. Tradition has it that he was responsible for the death of a servant girl in his father's house. The record of his case may yet come to light. No doubt the degree of harm he did while in Lewis has been exaggerated, but there is at least one family, in North Harris, who could give information about how an ancestor of theirs was murdered by him while on his way home from Stornoway, where he had gone to procure a keg of whisky for a wedding. Mac Gille Chaluim."

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Uploaded on September 11, 2013
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