Murlagan
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Murlagan is a place in Scotland. Name of a Mountain, and lochside house and farm. A minor seat of McMillan clan folk. Ancient burial ground of these folk at the lochside near the new cairn erected in 2002, by returning clansmen and women from Canada.
The Murlagan, chief of this McMillan band was tacksman to Cameron of Lochiel.
Many generations of these McMillans served the Camerons of Lochiel and worked land on Loch Arkaig, below the Mountain called Murlagan at the inland end of Loch Arkaig, which is near Fort William in the highlands of Scotland.
Many McMillans and relatives left Loch Arkaig for a new beginning and went to Canada in 1802, and their descendants returned in 2002 to raise a cairn at Murlagan during "The Great Return".
John the (Seventh?) of Murlaggan resisted Bonny Prince Charlie's attempt in 1745 for the British throne although his two sons went out in support of the prince under Cameron of Locheil, and one died at Culloden, the other rescued the prince and the last skirmish of the 1745 rebellion against the House of Hanover was on the land and policies of Murlagan, where French gold to fund the rebellion was rumoured buried,as the remnants scattered into hiding and the Prince went on his secret journey to the Isle of Skye and exile in France and into legend.
The present Murlagan, a descendant of old Murlagan, lives in the UK, and is acknowledged by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the official register of arms in Scotland as head of The McMillans of Murlagan.
