MACASGILL, Macaskill, Maccaskell, Maccaseil, Maccaskill, Mackaskil, Mackaskill: The Gaelic is MacAsgaill, derived from the ON. personal name Askell (for Asketill, 'the kettle or sacrificial vessel of the Anses,' i.e. gods). Rob Donn (ed. Morrison, p. 443) spells the name MacCasguill. It was a William MacAskill, probably a member of the family of MacCaskill of Ebost, who led the Clan Macleod against the fleet of Clanranald at Eynot, west of Skye, in the sixteenth century (Henderson, p. 54). Donald M'Askle was a corporal in the Reay Fencibles in 1795 (Scobie, p. 370), and Calum MacAsguill is author of ' Bearnaraidh na h-Earradh" (in Alba, I, no. 4, 1920). Angus McAskill, born in Lewis, died in Cape Breton August 8th, 1863, in his thirty-eighth year. He was 7 feet 9 inches in height, and was known as the Cape Breton Giant. (One of his boots, 16 inches in length, is preserved in the Provincial Museum, Halifax.) A ridiculous bombastic work by James D. Gillis, purporting to be an account of his life was published in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1919, under the title, The Cape Breton Giant: a truthful mejnoir. The Macasgills are known as Clann t-Asgaill, and the euphonic t has given rise to a forename, Taskill, Taskel M Rory, 1745. Macaisldll 1790, Mackaiscail 1766, Mackaiscal (in Crosple) 1769, Mackaiskill 1783, Mackascal 1769.