His military talents were of a very high order; his chivalrous character commanded the respect of his most inveterate foes, and his personal interest for and kindness toward his followers endeared him to his clansmen.

"[1] In June 1588, he was charged with massacring 18 members of Clan Donald who attended the wedding party of his mother Janet Campbell and his new stepfather John MacKane in April 1588 at Torloisk.

[3] In September 1588 a ship from the Spanish Armada ("San Juan de Sicilia") carrying 300 troops and silver plate for the use of noblemen was wrecked or run aground on the coast of Islay or Mull.

A day or two after the battle, it is said that two women, of whom different accounts are given — some calling them strangers, some clanswomen, some relations of the dead — grieving to think that the body of so notable a chief as Sir Lachlan Mor should be unburied and uncared for on the moorland, came from a distance in search of it.

[1] Sir Lachlan Mor MacLean was buried in the churchyard of Kilchoman on Islay, near the south wall of the church, and over his grave is laid a great stone.

The battle of Traigh Ghruinneart is the best known incident in the feud between the Macleans and the Macdonalds for the Rinns "[11][12] This article incorporates text from A history of the clan Mac Lean from its first settlement at Duard Castle, in the Isle of Mull, to the present period: including a genealogical account of some of the principal families together with their heraldry, legends, superstitions, etc, by John Patterson MacLean, a publication from 1889, now in the public domain in the United States.