When Somhairle MacDomhnaill was born about 1288, in Hebrides, Scotland, his father, Aonghus Óg Mac Domhnaill Lord of the Isles, was 15 and his mother, Juliana MacDougall of Dunollie and Lorne, was 42. He had at least 4 sons with Juliana O'Neill. He died in 1387, at the age of 100.
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Gaelicized form of the Old Norse personal name Sumarlíðr, probably originally a byname meaning ‘summer traveller’. See also Somerled .
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