What the records say
- When
- 1578
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 57.29° N, 6.22° W
- Description
- 1578 battle in the Highlands of Scotland
Battle of the Spoiling Dyke
Scottish clan battle of 1578, fought between the MacDonalds of Uist and Clan MacLeod
The Battle of the Spoiling Dyke or Battle of the Spoiled Dyke was a Scottish clan battle that took place in 1578 on the island of Skye between the MacDonalds of Uist and Clan MacLeod.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of the Spoiling Dyke at Trumpan on the Scottish Isle of Skye: the Clan MacLeod are victorious over the MacDonalds of Uist in a feud”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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