MACILCHOMHGHAIN: Gaelic Mac Gille Chomghain, 'son of the servant of (S.) Coman.' S. Comgan resided in Lochalsh in last half of seventh century, and planted several churches along the west coast. The M'llchomhghains were an ancient race or sept of untraced origin, and a family of the name seems to have been early possessors of inveraray, The large market cross there bears the following inscription: Hec est crux: nobilivm virorvm: videlicet Dondcani meic Gyllichomghan: Patrici ftlii: eivs: et Maelmore: filii Patrici: qvi hanc crvcem fieri faciebat, Gillacomgan, son of Maelbriede, mormaer of Murebe (Moray), and fifty of his men were burned to death, 1032 (AU.). Roderic and Yuar, sons of M'Gillecoan, are among the witnesses to a charter by John Cambel, lord of Ardsceodanich, Argyllshire, undated, but about 1355 (HP., II, p. 141). Hector Bui M'Coan was a notorious "robber from the north," in the beginning of the fifteenth century (Memoirs of Ewan Cameron, p. 18). Donald McGillequhoane was tenant of part of Culcame in Ross, 1507 (ER., XII, p. 665). John Makynquhone or Mackilquhone in Kilmaronock is mentioned in 1528 (Cambus., 158). Alexander M'Gillvcoan was burfisss of Dingwall, 1537 (RMS., III, 1721), and John Makgillechoan, burgess of Dingwall, 1582 (ibid., V, 508), is doubtless John MacGillichoan, parliamentary representative of Dingwall, 1587 (APS., III, p, 428). A bond by Donald M'Gillequhoan and his sons to Colin Campbell of Glenurquhay is recorded in 1552 (BBT., P. 197). John McGillichoane was member of Scots parliament for Dingwall, 1587 (Hanna, II, p. 503). In 1595 Donald Mclllichoan for himself and his succession, as one of the native men of Craignish, entered into an obligation of manrent to his chief, Ranald Campbell of Barrichibyan, as representative of the old Campbells of Craignish (Coll., p. 198). Johane Makgillichoan was a notary in Inverness, 1606 (Grant, III, p. 202,298). Janet McGillichoan in Channonrie was put on trial for witchcraft, 1630 (RPC., 2. ser. IV, p. 13), Patrick M'Lehoan appears in the Glenerquhay Muster Roll, 1638 (BBT., p. 398), and Donald M'ilchoen, Iain M'ilchoen, and Gilchrist M'ilchoan were among those massacred at Dunavertie in 1647 (HP., II, p. 257). Agnes Nick Killichoan is in record in 1669 (IDR., p. 322), John M'ilchoan apears in Bamacary, parish of Kilmory, ) 1675 Argyll), and Gilbert M'llchoane in Gelins, parish of Kilbryde, 1697 (Argyll Inv.). In the Duth Highlands, bordering on the Lowlands, 'Mac' entirely disappears from the name, and e.g. In Argyllshire Iain MacComhan becomes Iain Comhan in Gaelic while its English equivalent is Cowan; and Mr. J. S. Howson says he once saw in possession of one of the parish school children of Inveraray a paper in which the name was turned into Cunningham (Trans. Cambridge Camden Soc., p. 170). S. Comgan was the special patron of the old Glengarry family. "The author of the Letterfearn ms.," says Gregory (p. 303n), "informs us that, in the discussions before the Privy Council, the Mackenzies proved Glengarry 'to have been a worshipper of the Coan, which image was afterwards brought to Edinburgh and burnt at the Cross.'" in Edinburgh it was called "Glengarry's God." M'Gillochoaine 1587, M'Killichoan. 1587, Makilhchoan 1579.