{"id":2617,"date":"2011-03-16T19:21:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T19:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/bletherskite\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2011-03-16T19:21:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T19:21:24","slug":"preservation-award-for-medieval-western-isles-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/?p=2617","title":{"rendered":"Preservation Award for Medieval Western Isles Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2622\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"teampull na trionaid\" alt=\"teampull na trionaid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.letsbuyscottish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/teampull_na_trionaid1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" \/>The\u00a0Teampull na Trionaid a ruined church on Uist in the Western Isles has been given a grant of \u00a3200,000 in order to make it safe for visitors. The building was founded in 1200 as a college for Priests. The site also contains a graveyard called\u00a0<span>Teampull Clann a&#8217;Phiocair (Church of the MacVicars) where this clan are reported to have buried their dead after the church fell into disrepair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/clan-shop\/macleod\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/macleod-ad2.jpg\" alt=\"macleod-ad2\" width=\"600\" height=\"212\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/macleod-ad2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/macleod-ad2-300x106.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Near to this spot is the site of the\u00a0<span>The Battle of Cairinis in 1601. It has been said that this was the last battle fought in Scotland using traditional weapons. The Battle was the result of a dispute between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scottish-clans\/clan-macdonald\/\">Clan MacDonald<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scottish-clans\/clan-macleod\/\">Clan MacLeod from Harris<\/a>. One of the MacDonalds had decided to divorce his wife, a MacLeod. This angered the MacLeods and the formed a raiding party to Uist to attack the MacDonalds. Initially the MacDonalds attempted to use the <\/span>Teampull na Trionaid as a sanctuary but later achieved the upper hand and won the day. Indeed a nearby feature known as the &#8220;ditch of blood&#8217; testifies to the ferocity of the encounter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Teampull na Trionaid a ruined church on Uist in the Western Isles has been given a grant of \u00a3200,000 in order to make it safe for visitors. The building was founded in 1200 as a college for Priests. The site also contains a graveyard called\u00a0Teampull Clann a&#8217;Phiocair (Church of the MacVicars) where this clan are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,49,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scottish-clans","category-macdonald","category-macleod"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}