Alasdair mac Dhòmhnaill Alasdair | Alexander MacDonald
(1823 - 1904)

Alexander MacDonald was the son of Allan the Ridge MacDonald who left Lochaber in 1816 and settled at Mabou Ridge, Inverness County, later moving to South River, Antigonish County, in 1847. Both Allan and his son Alexander were well-known poets and both were authorities on the songs of Silis na Ceapaich and Iain Lom.

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