Clan Kennedy is a Scottish clan in part of the Galloway Gàidhealtachd, a strong Gaelic-speaking area of the Scottish Lowlands.
Muinntir na dubhchos was a Gaelic name for the Kennedy clan. John Mac Kennedy of Muntercasduff was mentioned in a charter of David II (1329-1371)(see below) while Gilbert Kennedy of Bargany had the lands of Sanct Michaelis Muntercasduff (Kirkmichael) in 1464. Further evidence of this association can be seen from the early forms of the Kennedy holding of Auchencrosh near Ballantrae, Ayr.
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Famous quotes containing the words clan and/or kennedy:
“It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 29:18.
President John F. Kennedy quoted this passage on the eve of his assassination in Dallas, Texas. Quoted in Theodore C. Sorenson, Kennedy, epilogue (1965)