26-01-2018
New Year's Greetings
New year's greetings to all Keppoch clansmen and friends. I hope 2018 finds you all well and happy. We celebrated a very happy family Burns supper last night and toasted the haggis and our national bard on the day of his birth. We wish you all the very best.
Dia's Naomh Aindrea.
MAC MHIC RAONUILL
Chief of the Honourable ClanRanald of Lochaber
11-09-2014
SCOTTISH REFERENDUM FOR INDEPDNENCE 18 SEPTEMBER 2014
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` The NO Campaign supported by Westminster is now in tatters !
As the Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond says they are pannicking
as the Opinion Polls show a marked increase in the YES Campaign as
the people of Scotland realise that this is a once in a lifetime
opportunity for Scotland to Rise and be a Nation ONCE AGAIN !
Our Referendum is only ONE WEEK AWAY NOW and we will without a doubt
be VOTING YES FOR SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE !
The world is watching and Scotland will soon take its place once
again with the Nations of the world !
SUAS ALBA !
SAOR ALBA !
MAC MHIC RAONUILL
Chief of the Honourable ClanRanald of Lochaber
10-06-2014
THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN 1314 700TH ANNIVERSARY!
THIS YEAR COMMEMORATES THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN 1314 !
HERE IS THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR THE FULL DETAILS OF THAT
FAMOUS BATTLE AND VICTORY FOR SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE .
NOTE THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF ANGUS OG MACDONALD LORD OF THE ISLES
VERY CLOSE FRIEND AND ALLY OF ROBERT THE BRUCE .
NOTE TOO THAT THE COAT OF ARMS OF ANGUS OG MACDONALD
lord of the isles is a golden eagle wearing a gold crown against
a black background which was his flag.
THIS IS THE SAME AS YOUR CHIEF RANALD ALASDAIR MACDONALD
OF KEPPOCH AND THE ONLY MACDONALD CHIEF ENTITLED TO SUCH
A SHIELD BEING THE DIRECT MALE HEIR OF ANGUS OG LORD OF THE ISLES.
THE SCOTS WON THE BATTLE FOR INDEPENDENCE AND THAT IS WHY YOUR
CHIEF SUPPORTS THAT TODAY. HE WILL BE VOTING YES IN THE FORTH
COMING REFERENDUM ON THE 18TH SEPTEMBER 2014. AND VERY HAPPY
AND PROUD TO DO SO. THIS TIME HE WILL NOT HAVE TO GO TO WAR
TO WIN IT AGAIN !
RANALD ALASDAIR MACDONALD OF KEPPOCH
CHIEF OF THE HONOURABLE CLAN RANALD OF LOCHABER
MAC MHIC RAONUILL.
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A warm and cordial
welcome to Keppoch clansmen world-wide.
This site has
been designed especially with you in mind, and I trust and sincerely
hope, that it is stimulating and beneficial to you all.
It is the first
for the Clan Ranald of Lochaber, and is in the process of being
developed. So please be patient, and you will I feel sure, find
it both interesting and rewarding. It will eventually contain a
wealth of information to help all those seeking further details
of our clan, its origin, its present status and future aims. Its
primary aim is to reunite our clan after a long interval of 156
years, and to facilitate easier and better communication between
us all.
You will be
able to communicate and create friendships with clansmen throughout
the world. We will establish links with other well established web
sites of similar interests, and others of diverse but interesting
and helpful inter-related subjects, such as : current Scottish News
at Home and Abroad, on-line Gaelic language courses, music and song,
educational Gaelic teaching organizations, magazines etc, Scottish
/Celtic history, and genealogical services, entertainment, tourism,
shopping etc. It will be an exciting one -stop-shop for all those
interested in their clan's origins and heritage.
MAC
MHIC RAONUILL |
ENSIGNS ARMORIAL :,
THEREFORE, the Lord Lyon King of Arms, for aught yet seen (Primo) MAINTAINS, RATIFIES and CONFIRMS unto the Petitioner and his heirs male, Chief of the Name and Arms of MacDonald of Keppoch and of the Honourable Clanranald, Mac'ic Raonuill, the following Ensigns Armorial, videlicet:- Quarterly, 1st, Or, a lion rampant Gules armed and langued Azure, 2nd, Argent, a dexter hand Gules holding a cross crosslet fitchée Sable, 3rd, Argent, a lymphad sails unfurled and oars in action Sable flagged Gules, 4th, Azure, a salmon naiant Proper. Above the Shield is placed an Helm befitting his degree with a Mantling Gules doubled Or 6 7 , and on a Wreath of the Liveries is set for Crest an eagle displayed Gules crowned of a ducal coronet Or, and in an Escrol over the same this Motto "AIR MUIR 'S TIR" and in another Escrol below the same this Motto "DIA 'S NAOMH AINDREA"; and on a compartment below the Shield comprising a rock Proper charged with the outline of a footprint are set for Supporters two wild boars Azure armed Argent langued Gules crined Or, each holding a Lochaber axe, its head facing outwards, Proper the cutting edge Sanguinée; and for his Standard three and a half metres long having Azure a St. Andrew's Cross Argent in the hoist of two tracts Gules and Or with his Crest depicted once and the slogan "DIA 'S NAOMH AINDREA" in letters Sable in the fly; and for his Pinsel 135 centimetres long and 60 centimetres high Gules, bearing the foresaid Crest within a strap of leather Gules buckled and embellished Argent inscribed with the Motto "AIR MUIR 'S AIR TIR" in letters also Argent all within a circlet of the Last, fimbriated Azure, bearing his title "MAC'IC RAONUILL" in letters Gules and in the fly, surmounted of a sprig of white heather Proper, being the proper plant-Badge of Clanranald of Lochaber, the slogan "DIA 'S NAOMH AINDREA" in letters Sable, and (Secundo) GRANTS WARRANT to the Lyon Clerk to matriculate the foresaid Ensigns Armorial in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland.
