Qualla: Battle of Tarbat https://qualla.com/battle-of-tarbat en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Tarbat https://qualla.com/battle-of-tarbat Battle of Tarbat: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-tarbat/ The Rosses set fire to the church with the survivors still inside it. That is the sentence the chroniclers can't quite shake. The Tarbat peninsula is gentle country, low and green, edged with sand beaches and farmland - not the obvious stage for one of the more savage episodes in late medieval Highland history. But sometime in the 1480s, a Mackay raiding party reached this shore, fought a losing battle, and ran for the only sanctuary available. The Rosses followed, barred the doors, and lit the roof.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/3/battle-of-tarbat-wp/gfm3-battle-of-tarbat-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Tarbat: A Decade of Raiding https://qualla.com/battle-of-tarbat/ The second half of the fifteenth century saw a series of cross-border raids between the Mackays of Strathnaver in north Sutherland and the Rosses of Balnagown in Easter Ross. Earlier in the century, at the Battle of Drumnacoub in 1433, the Mackays of Strathnaver had killed Neil N...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/3/battle-of-tarbat-wp/gfm3-battle-of-tarbat-a-decade-of-raiding.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Tarbat: Sources in Conflict https://qualla.com/battle-of-tarbat/ The Blackcastle Manuscript, written by Alexander Mackay of Blackcastle with access to the chief's family papers, says the Rosses had made "a predatory incursion" into Mackay territory first. Sir Robert Gordon's seventeenth-century Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/3/battle-of-tarbat-wp/gfm3-battle-of-tarbat-sources-in-conflict.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Tarbat: The Sanctuary Burned https://qualla.com/battle-of-tarbat/ Whatever started it, the end was clear. Angus Mackay led a band across the Meikle Ferry from Sutherland, ignored the warnings of the monks of Fearn Abbey - whose interdictions could usually deter even hardened raiders - and ran loose across the peninsula. The Rosses caught them a...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/3/battle-of-tarbat-wp/gfm3-battle-of-tarbat-the-sanctuary-burned.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Tarbat: Aldy Charrish https://qualla.com/battle-of-tarbat/ John Riabhach Mackay - Iain the Brindled - avenged his father in 1487 by leading a raid back into Ross territory. It ended at the Battle of Aldy Charrish at the head of the Kyle of Sutherland, where Alexander Ross of Balnagowan and many of his kinsmen were slaughtered. The Clan R...

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