244 A HUNDKED YEAES IN THE HIGHLANDS 



in Gaelic Iain Buidhe Taillear, has supplied mucli of 

 the information here given regarding his ancestors, the 

 hereditary pipers of the Gairloch family. 



It is a singular fact that the four long-lived Mackays 

 were pipers to the lairds of Gairloch during almost 

 exactly two centuries, during which there were eight 

 lairds of Gairloch in regular succession from father to son, 

 but only the four pipers ! 



