!SOURCE: William Matheson, "The MacLeods of Lewis," TRANSACTIONS OF
THE GAELIC SOCIETY OF INVERNESS, Vol. LI (1978-1980), Inverness,
Scotland, 1981, pp. 320-337 (329).
!SOURCE: Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN,
Section IV, Revised Edition, "The MacLeods of Lewis", Edinburgh,
Associated Clan MacLeod Societies, 1990, p. 4.

!SOURCE: Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN,
Section IV, Revised Edition, "The MacLeods of Lewis", Edinburgh,
Associated Clan MacLeod Societies, 1990, p. 16.
Norman Og is said to have possessed the farm of Baile na Cille,
separated from Loch Roag and his father''s island of Pabbay by the
MacAulay farms of Reef, Valtos and Kneep. Tradition preserves a more
detailed account of his death (betrayed by two of his foster-brothers,
who hindred his attempt to gain sanctuary) at the hands of John Roy
MacAulay in recognition of his status as Old Norman''s eldest son, and
thus presumably the leader of the massacre of the MacAulays. The Rev.
William Matheson [Matheson, TGSI (XLVI) pp. 80-84. See also the map on
page 85 of this publication.] has shown very good reason to view the
traditional massacre of the MacAulays as a degenerate account of the
Earl of Huntly''s expedition to Lewis in 1506 to suppress the rebellion of
Donald Dubh, claimant to the Lordship of the Isles, who was under the
protection of Torquil Macleod of Lewis. It would appear than the Clann
Thormoid, like the Morrisons of Ness, sided with Huntly against their
Chief, and thus an historical "fix" of c. 1506 can be assigned to Norman
Og and his brothers (hence the probability that their father, Old Norman,
was the brother of that Chief Roderick who died in c. 1497.). A century
or so later, when the MacKenzies conquered Lewis, apparently the same
thing happened again: the Clann Thormoid sided with the invaders
against the rest of the Macleods (and MacAulays) of Lewis. Their reward
for this appears to have been the retention of their status as tacksmen,
thus explaining why, in the first half of the eighteenth century, the
Hacklete and Garrabost families were the only Macleod tacksmen in
Lewis. [Matheson, TGSI (LI) pp. 329-330.] It is of some of these
families, descended from Clann Thormoid, that the following few
accounts treat.