In the late 11th century, however, Malcolm III of Scotland came to a written agreement with Magnus Barelegs, the Norwegian king, to move the border to the coast, so that Arisaig became Scottish.

[6] In the middle of that century, Somerled launched a coup in the Kingdom of the Isles, which led to it joining his other possessions as a single state.

This led to much violent conflict involving Godfrey's family (the Siol Gorrie) and those of his brothers, although this is not described in much detail in surviving records.

[7] Alexander had by then inherited Godfrey's de facto position as Lord of Garmoran, and in view of Ranald's heirs being no less responsible for the violence, King James declared the Lordship forfeit.

By this time John of Ross's conspiratorial ambition had caused the Lordship of the Isles to be forfeited, but in 1501, his heir, Black Donald, launched an insurrection aimed at restoring it.

[8] In his Report of the Visitation, Bishop Nicholson later commented about the region, "Kilmarui, i.e. the Cell or Church of St. Maelrubber, is close to Keppoch in Arisaig.

There are similar tombs on Eilean Finnan (where the Lairds of Moidart are buried), in Eigg, in Uist, Barra, and in several other islands off the North of Scotland.

"[9] On 20 September 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie left Scotland for France from a place near the village after the collapse of the Jacobite rising of 1745.

A gale then raging along the coast prevented his body from being taken for burial beside his parents at Eilean Finnan in Loch Shiel, the Bard was instead buried beside the ruins of Kil-Mael-Rubha Church in Airsaig.

[10] Although the exact location of the Bard's grave is no longer known, a wall plaque was erected in 1927 in St. Maelrubha's Roman Catholic cemetery in Arisaig "by a few Jacobite admirers in New Zealand and some fellow clansmen at home, in recognition of his greatness as a Gaelic poet".

[11] During the Highland Clearances, many of the local population emigrated to Canada, where in 1785 they founded the town of Arisaig, in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia.

Lord Cranstoun was certainly not a popular proprietor and was accused of having failed even to make effort to bring relief to his tenants, or even pay his own workers.

[13] It was even noted within a debate in the House of Commons in 1847, that Lord Cranstoun had 17 servants on the edge of starvation, who he refused to pay or provide for (see Distress in Scotland, HC Deb, 22 February 1847, vol 90, cc310 – 6).

[13] Even so, according to Dom Odo Blundell of Fort Augustus Abbey, the remaining population of Arisaig continued to be overwhelmingly Gaelic-speaking and belonged to the once strictly illegal Catholic Church in Scotland.

[14] The region is also very important to the modern history and recent development of the Scottish Gaelic language, as early lexicographer Fr.

[17] During the Second World War, Arisaig House became the headquarters for the Scottish section of the Special Operations Executive, which ran paramilitary training courses to prepare field agents for missions in Occupied Europe.

A fictionalized Ardnish peninsula and Arisaig provide the setting for most of the "Ian and Sovra" series of children's novels by Elinor Lyon.