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Description of the Western Isles of Scotland
''Description of the Western Isles of Scotland'' is the oldest known account of the Hebrides and the Islands of the Clyde, two chains of islands off the west coast of Scotland.〔Munro (1961) p. 1〕 The author was Donald Monro, a clergyman who used the title of "Dean of the Isles" and who lived through the Scottish Reformation. Monro wrote the original manuscript in 1549, although it was not published in any form until 1582 and was not widely available to the public in its original form until 1774. A more complete version, based on a late 17th-century manuscript written by Sir Robert Sibbald, was first published as late as 1961.〔Monro (1961) p. v〕 Monro wrote in Scots and some of the descriptions are difficult for modern readers to render into English. Although Monro was criticised for publishing folklore and for omitting detail about the affairs of the churches in his diocese, Monro's ''Description'' is a valuable historical account and has reappeared in part or in whole in numerous publications, remaining one of the most widely quoted publications about the western islands of Scotland.〔
Monro also wrote a brief description of the five main branches of Clan Donald that existed in his day under the title "The Geneologies Of The Chieff Clans Of The Iles", and this work was included when ''Description'' was first published as a stand-alone volume in 1805. The Sibbald manuscript also contains details about the "Council of the Isles" that operated from Eilean na Comhairle in Loch Finlaggan on the island of Islay. This is the most detailed extant account of the supreme judiciary body that had existed under the Lordship of the Isles until its demise in the late fifteenth century.〔Munro (1961) p. 95〕
==Author==
Donald Monro was born early in the 16th century, the eldest of the six sons of Alexander Monro of Kiltearn and Janet, daughter of Farquhar Maclean of Dochgarroch. His father was a grandson of George Munro, 10th Baron of Foulis.〔Alexander Ross (1884) "The Reverend Donald Munro, M.A., High Dean of the Isles". ''The Celtic Magazine''. Volume 9, pp. 142–44〕 Donald became the vicar of Snizort and Raasay in 1526,〔MacLeod (2004) p. 25〕〔Munro (1961) p. 11〕 and was nominated to the Archdeaconry of the Isles probably in or shortly after 1549.〔 These were troubled times in the Highlands and Islands, with Domhnall Dubh's attempts to resurrect the Lordship of the Isles only failing on his death in 1545. Partly as a result, the See of the Isles was one of the poorest in Scotland and although Monro lists fourteen islands as belonging to its Bishop, in practice rents were hard to collect.〔Munro (1961) pp. 12–13〕 In that year, he visited most of the islands on the west coast of Scotland and wrote his manuscript account of them, together with a brief genealogical account of various branches of Clan Donald. He referred to himself as "High Dean of the Isles"〔Munro (1961) p. 15〕 and his position was one of considerable influence although the advancing Reformation added further complication to the political landscape in which he was operating.
In 1560 the new Confession of Faith was adopted and ten dioceses were created anew, with the Isles shared between Ross and Argyll. Monro converted to Protestantism and was admitted to the new ministry for the parish of Kiltearn, to which he later added the adjacent Lemlair and Alness. He is said to have lived at Castle Craig, commuting across the Cromarty Firth to preach on Sundays.〔Munro (1961) pp. 17–20〕 At Lammas 1563 he became one of three special Commissioners under the Bishop of Caithness responsible for creating new kirks. The duties were arduous but he retained his position for 12 years, despite occasional criticism by the General Assembly. The last record of him is dated 1574 and it is assumed he had died by 1576 when new ministers were appointed for Kiltearn, Lemlair and Alness. He never married and no extant stone marks his burial at Kiltearn,〔Munro (1961) p. 25〕 his written work being his sole monument.〔Munro (1961) pp. 23–25〕
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