Roderic (Rory) MacDonald

(Highland District) Born at Garrfluich, South Uist, 1763; arrived in Valladolid, having spent a month in Scalan before sailing from Leith; completed his course, left for Scotland, 14th November 1791, and ordained priest in Edinburgh; in Badenoch, 1791-1803, and in Hebrides, 1803-28; died in the family home, South Uist, 29th September 1828.

From the Scottish Catholic Directory of 1870.

BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE REV. RODERICK MACDONALD.

This venerable clergyman was born on the island of South Uist in the year 1763. At the age of seventeen or eighteen, he was sent to the Scots College of Valladolid, where he was ordained Priest in the 28th year of his age. On his return to Scotland in May or June 1791, he was appointed to the Mission of Badenoch, in Inverness-shire, where he served for twelve years. He was then removed to the Mission of the North-end of South Uist and the adjacent island of Benbecula in 1803, where, after discharging his duties as a faithful and exemplary pastor, he died on the 29th September 1828, in the family mansion at Garrfluich, in South Uist, of which farm and lands his forefathers had been tenants, or gentlemen tacksmen, (a race of landholders now nearly extinct,) for generations.