[3] The Clanranald Bard, as he has since been dubbed by Hamish Henderson,[4] is also notable for having been chosen, due to his "skill in the Highland Language", to teach Scottish Gaelic to Prince Charles Edward Stuart during the Jacobite rising of 1745.

According to Father Charles MacDonald, "She is represented to have been a lady of singular piety, and of a gentleness of manners which was well-calculated to have had a beneficial effect on the fiery characters surrounding Dalilea.

The natives still point out a certain spot on the top of the knoll behind Dalilea House, where this estimable person used to spend many of the summer evenings in reading and in devotional exercises.

"[10] After Aonghas Beag MacDhòmhnaill converted from the Scottish Episcopal Church to Roman Catholicism, he served as Captain over the men of Dalelia during the Jacobite Rising of 1745.

[9] After more than 800 years of ownership by the line of Somerled, Dalilea House and the surrounding district, along with the estates of Lochans, Eilean Seòna, and the Isle of Muck, were sold in 1813, both to cover the debts and to fund the extremely extravagant spending of Ranald George Macdonald, 19th Chief of Clanranald.