Qualla: Battle of Lagganmore https://qualla.com/battle-of-lagganmore en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/0/battle-of-lagganmore-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Lagganmore https://qualla.com/battle-of-lagganmore Battle of Lagganmore: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-lagganmore/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. There is a place in Glen Euchar, west of Loch Scammadale, that local tradition still calls Sabhal nan Cnamh - the Barn of Bones. In the spring of 1646, Royalist soldiers under Alasdair Mac Colla are said to have driven a number of prisoners along with Campbell women and children from the surrounding district into a barn and set it alight. Only two women, by one tradition, escaped. The Battle of Lagganmore was a small clash in a long war; what makes it remembered is what came after the fighting stopped. The folklore of Argyll has kept the name for nearly four centuries, and the place itself, on a quiet hillside west of the loch, is not marked for tourists.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/0/battle-of-lagganmore-wp/gfh0-battle-of-lagganmore-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Lagganmore: A War Inside a War https://qualla.com/battle-of-lagganmore/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. Lagganmore was part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms - the linked civil wars in Scotland, England and Ireland between 1639 and 1651 that ended with the execution of Charles I and the rise of Oliver Cromwell. But the Scottish theatre of the war was always tangled up with the olde...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/0/battle-of-lagganmore-wp/gfh0-battle-of-lagganmore-a-war-inside-a-war.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Lagganmore: Mac Colla and the Irish Soldiers https://qualla.com/battle-of-lagganmore/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. Alasdair Mac Colla came to Scotland in June 1644 at the head of a group of Irish professional soldiers, sent by Confederate Ireland and the Earl of Antrim ostensibly to support the Royalists. He joined forces with the Marquess of Montrose and helped fight the brilliantly successf...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/0/battle-of-lagganmore-wp/gfh0-battle-of-lagganmore-mac-colla-and-the-irish-soldiers.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Lagganmore: The Battle in Glen Euchar https://qualla.com/battle-of-lagganmore/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. Most of what is known about the actual fighting comes from local folklore. Contemporary written sources are nearly silent. Bragleen and Lochnell's force, mainly Clan Campbell with men of several associated clans, assembled in Glen Euchar to attack Mac Colla. Zachary MacCallum of ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/0/battle-of-lagganmore-wp/gfh0-battle-of-lagganmore-the-battle-in-glen-euchar.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Lagganmore: The Barn of Bones https://qualla.com/battle-of-lagganmore/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. What happened after the battle is what made Lagganmore notorious. According to long-standing local tradition, Mac Colla's Royalist soldiers drove a number of prisoners from the battle, along with Campbell women and children from the surrounding district, into a barn and set it on...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/0/battle-of-lagganmore-wp/gfh0-battle-of-lagganmore-the-barn-of-bones.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Lagganmore: What the Glen Remembers https://qualla.com/battle-of-lagganmore/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. The dead at Sabhal nan Cnamh were not soldiers. They were prisoners who had surrendered and were entitled to quarter, women and children from villages near the battlefield, civilians caught in the long quarrel between two clans they could not have stopped. Their names are not rec...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/0/battle-of-lagganmore-wp/gfh0-battle-of-lagganmore-what-the-glen-remembers.mp3 0:06 6 full