The MacDougall lords of Lorn clashed with the MacSween lords of Knapdale in a naval engagement off Jura as part of the broader contest for supremacy in the inner Hebrides before Largs. The MacDougall fleet under the Lorn lords was one of the most powerful in the western isles and their defeat of MacSween naval power helped establish MacDougall supremacy in the pre-Largs period.
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