DUNSLEVE: Gaelic Donnsleibhe or Donnsheibhe, for early Gaelic Duinslebe, "brown of the hill.' An old personal name among the Gaels of Scotland and Ireland, and a favorite forename with the Macquarries of Ulva (Dunslaf 1505, Downsleif 1517). The duke of Argyll has shown that in old Argyll rentals 'd' drops out, and also the 's' by euphonic elision, the name becoming (with Mac-) M'Onlave, M'Dunlave, M'inlay and M'An-lei or M'Onlea which became Maclay. In one document the name Dunslave M'Dunslave is found, clearly showing that the origin of the name lay in a forename (CR., VI, p. 191). Dunslene (for Dunsleue, second u = v) frater Murchardi was one of the witnesses to the confirmation by Walter, earl of Menthet of the gift of the church of Colmanel to the church of Paisley, 1262 (RMP., p. 122). Between 1303—09 James, son of Dunsleph, received a grant of lands in Kintyre from Robert the Bruce for his forensic service of a ship with twenty-six oars with men and victuals pertaining to the same (RMS., I, App. I, 105). Dunslane (for Dunslaue) McNeill is one of the parties to a Macdonleavie bond of 1518. Dunsleve, son of Aedh Alain, through his son Suibhne or Swene was ancestor of the MacSuibhnes or Macewens of Otter, and also the common ancestor of the Lamonts and the Maclachlans (CR., VI, p. 191).