St. Ciaran died in 549 A.D… there were later Mac an t-saoirs in 767, 773, and three hundred years later, in 1029 and 1097. the description or title of "Mac an t-saoir." St. Ciaran apparently started the construction of the Monastery of Clonmacnoise. the O Brolchans certainly were known for their building in Derry….."The son of the artificer fell asleep [i.e., died]. that is, Cairan, 34 years old it is said, or 7 months after the construction of the monastery of Clanmacnoise was begun." So perhaps the title was given to those who were renowned for erecting church edifices. The great Érainnian population groups of around A.D. 600, such as the Muscraige of Munster, gave rise in the Middle Ages to the independently branched tribal groups that follow. In the earliest versions of the legend, it was just an unnamed island to the west - later Scottish historians decided the Island must have been Skye - but this is contrary to the earliest verbal traditions of the family.

The legend of the Scottish Mac an t-Saoirs sailing to Scotland from an island to the west (the Hebrides) is as more of a Galwegian or Viking settlement than a band of Irish Mac an t-Saoirs settling in Scotland. … their prophecy about a white cow indicating the land in which they were to settle. A version of the ship and wright story of the MacIntyres which featured an O'Donnell instead of a MacDonald. Many versions  seen of a MacDonald, i.e, Somerled, and his nephew, Maurice. a McAteer version of the MacIntyre origin legend which had the first McAteer arising from an O'Donnell. The legend was passed down verbally, from father to son, through a McAteer family outside Ireland. MacIntyre in Gaelic is Mac-an-t-Saoir and means Children of The Wright. In ancient Scotland, wright meant shipwright. Although, saoir also means carpenter, in Scotland there was no need for someone with special skills to build and furnish a simple Highland dwelling.

The MacIntyres of Scotland and the Cineal Eoghan can't identify a single chieftain prior to about 1695. All the family records, if there ever were any, were said to be lost from every Celtic manuscript they could find destroying/ed. The legend of the Scottish Mac an t-Saoirs sailing to Scotland from an island to the west (in the Hebrides) is as more of a Viking settlement than a band of Irish Mac an t-Saoirs settling in Scotland. … their prophecy about a white cow indicating the land in which they were to settle. A version of the ship and wright story of the MacIntyres which featured an O'Donnell instead of a MacDonald. Many versions  seen of a MacDonald, i.e, Somerled, and his nephew, Maurice. a McAteer version of the MacIntyre origin legend which had the first McAteer arising from an O'Donnell. The legend was passed down verbally, from father to son, through a McAteer family outside Ireland.

Some folk traditions preserved concerning the MacIntyres of Scotland: They are said to have come from an island to the west in ships and settled in Argyle, armed with a prophecy about a white cow, which would let them know where to settle. They saw the white cow in Loarn (Argyle) and that's where their journey ended. In the earliest versions of the legend, it was just an unnamed island to the west - later Scottish historians decided the Island must have been Skye - but this is contrary to the earliest verbal traditions of the family. In about 300 A.D., the Scoti came from northeast Ireland to colonized Argyll and the Western Islands including Sleat. These people would have included the ancestors of the MacIntyres as well as the MacDonalds, MacDougalls, and MacNeils.

"A descendant of his, not finding any way of making a living in his native district of Sleat, in Skye, resolved to seek his fortune elsewhere, and set sail in his galley, taking a white cow with him. Having landed in Argyllshire, near Loch Etive, he resolved that wherever the white cow would lie down to rest he would settle. This she did in Glenoe, and he built his house on the spot, which to this day is named in Gaelic, Larach na ba baine" ("the site of the White Cow")". the cow story has its roots with St. Ciaran. To quote: "Ciaran was born in 516, the son of a chariot maker from the area now known as Roscommon. According to the legend, Ciaran's parents were too poor to pay anything toward his education, so Ciaran asked for a cow to offer as payment. Not being able to do without their cow, his parents refused. However, as Ciaran began his journey to Clonard, a dun cow and her calf followed him. During his years at the monastery, the cow provided milk for the monks and students. Even after her dying, the cow continued to provide - it is said that her hide became the parchment on which the Lebor na h'Uidre (Book of the Dun Cow) was written."

Ros Laogh means promontory of the cow or calf. The MacIntyres had settled in Glen Noe of Antrim, near a promontory that had a rock in the shape of a white cow- a location known as the Clach an Laoigh Bhiata, or stone of the White calf in Glen Noe. Resembling the  "triple tau" symbol used by the Masons, if not by the Knights Templar. In the arms it is protruding upward from the mailed hand. Protruding downward is the blade. Graves of Knights Templar at or near Glenoe as some of the Knights Templar escaped the extermination in France, taking the Templar fleet with them, and that they landed in Scotland where they knew they would find sanctuary. The Templar fleet was known to exist, and it is otherwise unaccounted for. The Templars would have sailed from Scotland, crewed with local seamen (the MacIntyres?) to an unknown site in the New World. Recently some evidence of a very early Christian presence has turned up near Boston. Of course, Jacques Cartier reported that the Indians of the Gulf of St. Laurence region greeted his men (circa 1534 A.D.) by making the sign of the cross.

 

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