Both castles are in the south-east of Mull. The images on the banner at the top of this page are of Duart Castle, ancestral home of the MacLeans of Duart and of the ruins of Moy Castle which was the base for the Lochbuie clan.
The next main development was in the 14 th century when Gille eoin’s great gre at grandsons, brothers Lachlan and Hector, were independently granted land and titles by the Lord of the Isles and from this act two separate clans were formed – the MacLeans of Duart and of Lochbuie. Recorded history of these clans goes back to 13 th century Scotland when Gille eoin or Gilleain na Tuaighe (Gillean of the Battleaxe) founded Clan Gillean. Most people with our surname associate themselves with the Scottish clans MacLean of Duart, MacLaine of Lochbuie or one of their many branches. As a surname project our focus is on male ancestors and Y-DNA testing because the Y-chromosome is passed from father to son just as a surname is normally passed in the same way. We are a DNA project with over 700 members scattered across the world but with the shared aim of using DNA testing to tell us more about our ancestry than we have been able to find by following a paper trail alone. Please join us if you have (or your ancestor had) the surname MacLean, MacLaine, McLean or any of the other variants listed above and you have already taken or plan to take relevant DNA tests to assist with your research. As project Admins we are increasingly finding that emails we send out are returned as undeliverable and this means that we have no way of communicating with you. APPEAL TO ALL PROJECT MEMBERS - Can all project members please check that the email address recorded for each FTDNA kit you manage is still the correct one, and if not change it.
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