The book Arran; - Cook Clan

FOLK HISTORY 117
more open vowel sounds by crimping the lips.^ MacKinnons
are a familiar name of the Western Isles and may well have
strayed in, but the Robertsons can scarcely be the Perth-
shire Clan Donnachie : there were others who are entitled
to a separate category. The Crawfords at Clachan were
possibly a Lanarkshire lot : some are on record from Renfrew.
MacKillops (Philip's son) are in evidence Loch Ranza way.
Special northern forms of Loch Ranza and Sannox are
Kelso and the Roxburgh Kerr (Carr), which are Gaelicised
as ' Caolisten ' and ' Carrach ' ; the origin of these names has
already been indicated. Wherever they are found in Arran
they come from the north end, where they had their roots.
Kintyre MacMillans transferred to Loch Ranza have, in one
case, become famous as publishers. Hamiltons, FuUartons,
and Hunters predominate, as might be conjectured, in
the gravestones of the east side. So do MacBrides, with
the ' pet ' form or diminutive M'Bridan (M'Bhridein).^
MacMasters are sons of ' the Master,' who would be a cleric.
But though most Highland districts still specialise in
their ancient nomenclature, and Arran, being an island, has
been necessarily conservative in this respect, economic and
other changes, helped by facilities of intercommunication,
have gone far in uprooting the old names or grafting them
with new.
At this stage the problem of the ' baron-lairds ' may
again be taken up, for consideration from the present point
of view. It has previously been suggested that these were
the feuars, who of course are a species of landholders subject
to the payment of a yearly feu. The classic case is that of
the charter constitution of the tenants of Bute by James iv.
in 1506 as holders at feu-farm. There is a very long hst
of such tenants, with specification by name of the lands or
1 Cf. the Galloway M'Kinnie with the Arran M'Kinyie (M'Kinzie) and the
northern M'Kenyie (M'Kenzie). (The 2; is a distortion of printing.)
2 For 'dream signs' of the Arran families, see p. 290. See also p. 289.