!SOURCE: THE MACLEODS OF ARNISDALE, compiled by Rev. Donald
MacKinnon, Portree, Skye, Scotland, 1929, reprinted by The Clan MacLeod
Society USA, Migration Project Publications Series, Number 1, 1984, pp.
9, 10.
Donald ... was the progenitor of the MacLeods of Drynoch.
!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF
CLAN, Section III, "Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society,
1970, p. 129.
The MacLeod family of Drynoch was descended from Donald Glas
(DOMHNALL GLAS, Donlad the Pale), third son of Alexander MacLeod, 1st
of the MacLeods of Liosail, who was a younger son of Norman MacLeod,
4th of the family of Waternish. [See ante The MacLeods of Waternish.]
Of Donald Glas, the progenitor of this family we know nothing. MacLeod
writers and others claim that he was a cousin of Sir Roderick More
MacLeod of Dunvegan, and that he was in command of the MacLeods at the
battle of Carinish, North Uist, in 1601. Probably this claim is based on a
a passage in the GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE EARLDOM OF
SUTHERLAND [(1913), p. 244.], in which Sir Robert Gordon states that Sir
Roderick Mor MacLeod sent his cousin, Donald Glas MacLeod, at the head
of a band of MacLeods to lift a CREACH in North Uist. According,
however, to the tradition of North Uist [CLAN DONALD, III, pp. 40-5.], the
leader of the MacLeods was MAC DHOMHNUILL GHLAIS (Donald Glas'' son),
a grandson of Alasdair Crotach, 8th of Dunvegan. The MacLeod leader
could not have been Donald Glas of Drynoch, who was born much later
than Sir Roderick Mor of Dunvegan, and was only very distantly related to
him. It is not known when Donald Glas died. He was married, and had
issue, a son, John, described as IAIN MAC DHOMHNUILL GHLAIS.
[NOTE: For a chart showing the relationship between Donald
Glas of Drynoch and Sir Roderick Mor of Dunvegan, see page 129 of this
source.]