Hopkins, P. 1986. Glencoe and the End of the Highland War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
McLean, J. 1857. Dunkeld: Its Straths and Glens. Edinburgh: A. McLean & Son
Stevenson, D. 1942. Alasdair MacColla and the Highland Problem in the Seventeenth Century. Edinburgh: Donald
Information on Sources & Publication
The battle of Dunkeld is well documented in both primary and secondary sources, though no rigorous modern assessment of the battlefield has been attempted, other than the research for the Inventory of Historic Battlefields presented here. The background to the conflict is recorded in the legal documents of the Privy Council of Scotland. As to reports on the battle action, Lt. Col. Blackader's diary has been published relatively intact by Crichton (1824), General Mackay's account is also recorded in the Privy Council Register. Ballads, poems and novels were written about the engagement, passed on through oral tradition and transcribed by later antiquarians and scholars, though these have most commonly been used to highlight and memorialise the Jacobite cause.
Primary Sources
5 August 1689. Order for Captain Ramsey to carry out Lainer's orders. Militia regisment to be called out to defend Edinburgh. Register of the Privy Council of Scotland. 3rd Series.Vol 14 (1689-1689), p. 12
6 August 1689. Letter to Argyll that available arms are required to make good losses at Killiecrankie and instructions regarding trouble in the regiments of Glencairn and Angus. Register of the Privy Council of Scotland. 3rd Series. Vol 14 (1689-1689), p. 20
6 August 1689. Act granting Thomas Steill, Chamberland of Jedburgh Forrest and brother-in-law of William Cleland, permission under command of Lord Angus make compt to William Lowrie of Blaikwood for the subsistence money paid to William Cleland and Major Henderson for the months of May and June and to deal with the movable assets at the time of his death. Register of the Privy Council of Scotland. 3rd Series.Vol 14 (1689-1689), p. 440
12 August 1689. Order for Cleland to take Angus regiment from Doune and Dunblane to Dunkeld and await orders. Register of the Privy Council of Scotland. 3rd Series.Vol 14 (1689-1689), p. 35
17 August 1689. Proclamation that Angus's regiment reaches Dunkeld. Register of the Privy Council of Scotland. 3rd Series.Vol 14 (1689-1689), p. 60
19 August 1689. Order to Lanier to concentrate forces and move on Atholl, leaving Perth protected. Ramsey recalls horse sent from Perth to Dunkeld. Register of the Privy Council of Scotland. 3rd Series. Vol 14 (1689-1689), p. 83
21 August 1689. Proclamation that enemy repulsed at Dunkeld. Register of the Privy Council of Scotland. 3rd Series. Vol 14 (1689-1689), p. 70
22 August 1689. Letters to the Secretary with an account of the Dunkeld action, enclosing Mackay's report of answer from the clans anent indemnity: Lanier expects a junction with Mackay. Register of the Privy Council of Scotland.
26 December 1689. Act granting William Lowrie of Blaikwood permission to reclaim overpayments made to the companies involved in Dunkeld. Register of the Privy Council of Scotland. 3rd Series. Vol 14 (1689-1689), p. 153
Act granting Alexander Cannon exchange of prisoners from Killiecrankie with John Hay, a merchant from Edinburgh.
Blackader J. 1689. Letter to Lt. Col. Blackader's brother in Edinburgh (Wednesday 21st August 1689)
Crichton, A. 1824. The Life and Diary of Lt. Col. J. Blackader, of the Cameronian Regiment, and Deputy Governor or Stirling Castle. Edinburgh: H. S. Baynes
Gondek, M and Driscoll, S. 2003. 'Dunkeld House grounds (Dunkeld & Dowally parish), evaluation', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. Vol 4,106-7
Kellog, D and Jones, R. 2003. 'Dunkeld House grounds (Dunkeld & Dowally parish), geophysical survey'. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. Vol 4, 106
Mackay, H. 1833. Memoirs of the War carried on in Scotland and Ireland, 1689-1691. Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club
Macky, J. 1733. Memoirs of the Secret Service of John Macky. London
Macpherson, J. (ed) 1775. Original papers: containing the Secret History of Great Britain (2 volumes). London
Memoirs of Locheill: [J. Drummond of Balhaldie], Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Locheill, ed. J. MacKnight. Maitland Club 1842
Archive/Library: National Register of Archives Scotland
Atholl MSS: Manuscripts of the Duke of Atholl. EUL (Edinburgh University Library)
Jacobite Papers and Letters, 'Information of the grounds of differences betwixt'Macintosh and Keppoch', MS 295, ff. 1-2
Cartographic & Illustrative Sources
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