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The church still has the remains of the church which was set on fire in 1597 by MacDonald raiders while the congregation of MacLeods were inside at worship. Only one woman survived.
The MacLeods of Dunvegan rushed to the spot and attacked the raiders after flying their Fairy Flag. Only two MacDonalds escaped death.
Among the graves of many local people you can still trace the humble gravestone of the ill-fated Lady George, wife of a Lord Justice Clerk of Edinburgh who was buried there after spending many sad and lonely years in the islands. It was said that she had overheard a plot being made by her husband and others to further the Jacobite cause. Her husband who was now afraid she would betray him deported her to the west shere she died some years later.
Trumpan is Norse for one sided hillock
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