2366: Donald Macleod

Donald born 1834, was a son of Angus Macleod and Annabella Smith.

He got the nickname Domhnall na h-Òrdaig because he broke his thumb in a fight. He was a Gillie at Kinloch and was known to be a heavy drinker getting into many scrapes. Once whilst on Caltrashal, Morsgail he got very drunk and didn't return home that night. Fearing the worst a man who had gone to search for him, and finding him alive, penned the words;

Chaidh mi mach ga fhireachdan

An duil gun do dh'fhalbh an spiorad as,

Ach is ann a bha thu beo a Dhomhnaill bhochd

Another poem written about him by Kenneth Maclean Coinneach Phadruig from Ungeshader regarding the fight in which he broke his thumb goes as follows;

Domhnall na h-Òrdaig is gille gle sgiobalta è

Ged a tha è a nise tri-fichead 'sa coig

Mar a be am blàr a bha aige ann an Gleann 'Iobadal

Sheasadh è fhathast ann an ranca duine òg