The Mackenzies pushed eastward from their Kintail base into Strathconon and the western margins of the Black Isle in the mid-fourteenth century. Strathconon was valuable agricultural land and its acquisition extended Mackenzie authority toward the Ross-shire lowlands. The Strathconon expansion was achieved through a combination of marriage alliances and military pressure on the lesser lords of the strath.
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