Memoirs of Bards and Pipers
| Ruaridh Mackay, piper | Iain Buidhe Taillear. | ||
| John Mackay, piper and bard, called Iain Dall | Beauties of Gaelic Poetry; corrected by Iain Buidhe Taillear. | ||
| Angus Mackay, piper | - | Iain Buidhe Taillear. | |
| John Mackay, piper, his son | |||
| William Mackenzie and Malcolm Maclean, bards | Beauties of Gaelic Poetry. | ||
| William Ross, the Gairloch bard | Beauties of Gaelic Poetry. | ||
| Alexander Campbell, bard to Sir Hector | - | Roderick Campbell. | |
| James Mackenzie. | |||
| Alexander Grant, the bard mor an t’ Slaggan | James Mackenzie. | ||
| John Mackenzie of the “Beauties” | Celtic Magazine; corrected by James Mackenzie, his brother. | ||
| Roderick Campbell, piper and fiddler | - | Ali’ Iain Ghlass. | |
| James Mackenzie. |
The History of the Mackenzies above referred to is that of which Mr Alexander Mackenzie, a native of Gairloch, is the author. The Celtic Magazine is edited by the same Alexander Mackenzie. The Gairloch traditions taken from it are believed to have been mostly communicated to the Editor by Kenneth Fraser, of Leac nan Saighead, now an old man.
Where the traditions obtained from the sources stated above differ from the accounts of the same incidents given in old MSS., I have preferred to adopt the versions supported by the authorities referred to, believing them to be quite as reliable.