After decades of legal pressure, the Campbells finally drove out the remaining MacDonald population of Kintyre following James VI reign. The Earl of Argyll received a royal commission to plant Kintyre with Lowland settlers, displacing the Gaelic-speaking MacDonald tenants. This was one of the earliest plantation exercises carried out in mainland Scotland.
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