Talk:Clan MacNeacail

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[edit] Slightly mixed up

This page needs quite a bit of work. Some of the source material is way off, and it keeps creeping back as authoritative here.

The authoritative history of the Clan is "The Highland Clan MacNeacail (MacNicol)" by Sellar and Maclean. It has debunked much of the information written about the Clan.

I don't believe the Clan to have been a sept because it had its own Chief, and indeed still has.

It needs information on the surnames associated with it reinstated too - the term 'Clan MacNicol' started out when a completely unrelated Clan Nicolson claimed the entire clan as their own at the Lord Lyons Court. The Skye Nicolsons had to register under a separate name. So most of the members are called Nicolson, Nicholson, Nicoll, Nicholl and so on. That's useful information for readers to know.

Keeswiki 15:11, 4 August 2007 (UTC)