Landholder of intermediate status in Scottish Highland society
A tacksman (Scottish Gaelic: Fear-Taic, meaning "supporting man"; most common Scots spelling: takisman)[1][2][3] was a landholder of intermediate legal and social status in Scottish Highland society.
^"Ceannardan poileataigeach a' dèanamh luaidh air Diùc Dhùn Èideann". Naidheachdan A' BHBC. 12 April 2021 – via www.bbc.com.
^"Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: DOST :: takkisman".
^Scotland, Highland and Agricultural Society of; Scotland, Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of (1 January 1828). "Dictionarium Scoto-celticum: A Dictionary of the Gaelic Language; Comprising an Ample Vocabulary of Gaelic Words ... with Their Signification and Various Meanings in English and Latin ... and Vocabularies of Latin and English Words with Their Translation Into Gaelic. To which are Prefixed, an Introduction Explaining the Nature, Objects and Sources of the Work, and a Compendium of Gaelic Grammar". W. Blackwood – via Google Books.
A tacksman (Scottish Gaelic: Fear-Taic, meaning "supporting man"; most common Scots spelling: takisman) was a landholder of intermediate legal and social...
was a member of the minor gentry of Clan MacDonald of Clanranald, being tacksman and leaseholder of Milton and Balivanich. She had two brothers, Angus,...
across Scotland highlighted the changed role of clan chiefs.: 37-46 A tacksman (a member of the daoine uaisle, sometimes described as "gentry" in English)...
The MacCarthy dynasty of Muskerry is a tacksman branch of the MacCarthy Mor dynasty, the Kings of Desmond. The MacCarthy of Muskerry are a cadet branch...
register of Buchanan, Stirling. His parents were the local Clan MacGregor tacksman, Donald Glas MacGregor, and Margaret Campbell. He was also descended from...
defining feature of run rig. The majority of townships were rented by a tacksman and sublet to the actual farming tenants. Some tacksmen would have leases...
were steadily eliminated over the last quarter of the 18th century. A tacksman (a member of the daoine uaisle, sometimes described as 'gentry' in English)...
h-Apainn) was the assassination of Colin Roy Campbell, the Clan Campbell tacksman of Glenure, on 14 May 1752 near Appin in the west of Scotland. The murder...
that accelerated from the 1770s onward, by the early 19th century the tacksman had become a rare component of society. Historian T. M. Devine describes...
who wrote many immortal works of Scottish Gaelic literature and local Tacksman of Clan MacDonald of Clanranald. The Old Forge pub at Inverie holds the...
marks him out as a Cavalier poet in Welsh-language literature. Iain Lom, a Tacksman from Clan MacDonald of Keppoch, composed a long eyewitness account of the...
thereby increasing their income. By the early part of the 19th century, the tacksman had become a rare component of Highland society. T. M. Devine describes...
be held in Gairloch commemorating John Mackay (1656–1754) piper to the Tacksman of Clan Mackenzie of Gairloch, blind from the age of seven as the result...
Mhaighstir Alasdair, moved from Arisaig to become Clanranald tacksman of Laig. While serving as Tacksman, Raonuill Dubh collected and published the poetry anthology...
Carthy Mór (by the law of tanistry). The MacCarthy dynasty of Muskerry is a tacksman branch of the MacCarthy dynasty, the Kings of Desmond. It was founded by...
subordinate to the king. In this later sense a flaith was similar to a tacksman in the Scottish clan system. The later development in meaning, innocent...
of Dalilea) who was the non-juring Episcopalian rector of Kilchoan and Tacksman (Scottish Gaelic: Fear-Taic) of Dalilea. MacDhòmhnaill is believed to have...
Scottish Gaelic to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, died while serving as tacksman of Arisaig in 1770 and was buried in the cemetery of Kilmorie, close to...
Roybridge, Lochaber. The identity of the killers, Alexander Macdonald, Keppoch Tacksman of Inverlair, and his six sons, were well known. Sir James at Dunelm Castle...
denotes that the Sutherland brothers were members of the daoine uaisle or tacksman class, sometimes described as 'gentry'. George Edward Cokayne Complete...
man of wealth and eminence, sends his child, either male or female, to a tacksman, or tenant, to be fostered. It is not always his own tenant, but some distant...
Kildan's Lift") on Rona, named after one John MacLeod who was at one time tacksman and steward of St Kilda. Near Auldgirth in Dumfries and Galloway is a small...
hill", name of a village, near which the element was discovered. Tack & Tacksman (a lessee) From Scots tak (take) cf. Old Norse taka. Trousers from triubhas...
popular anti-landlord poems mocks Aonghus MacDhòmhnaill, the post-Culloden tacksman of Griminish. It is believed to date from between 1769 and 1773, when overwhelming...
of Brenish; Murdo, who was tacksman of Valtos; and Donald, who was tacksman of Carnish. Dugald's son was Donald, tacksman of Brenish (fl.1754); and of...
British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. He was a son of Donald Macleod tacksman of Balallan in the Isle of Lewis and Jane the daughter of Malcolm Macleod...
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