| surname | McDonald / Domhnallach |
| forenames | Allan / Ailean |
| title | Father |
| nickname | Maighstir Ailean |
| life | 1859–1905 |
| origin | Lochaber / S. Uist & Barra |
| notes | From Companion to Gaelic Scotland – “Born Fort William. Related to D. C. MacPherson. Educated at Blairs College and Scots College, Valladolid. Ordained Glasgow, 1882; with Bishop Angus MacDonald at Oban, 1882-4; parish priest, Daliburgh, South Uist, 1884-94; Eriskay, 1894-1905. Member of South Uist School Board and briefly county councillor. Collected local Gaelic folklore from 1887; published hymns in 1889 and 1893. McDonald was frequently consulted by other folklorists and corresponded with Walter Blaikie, Alexander and Ella Carmichael, Ada Goodrich Freer, George Henderson, William MacKenzie, Neil Munro, , etc. He was involved in the investigation into second sight in the Highlands initiated by the Society for Psychical Research [...] and collaborated with Amy Murray in collecting Gaelic folksongs on Eriskay in 1905. He was the original for ‘Fr. MacCrimmon’ in Frederic Breton’s Heroine in Homespun (1893), and for ‘Fr. Ludovic’ in Neil Munro’s Children of the Tempest (1903). His Gaelic poems were published in 1965. [...]” |
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