The last battle fought with bows and arrows in Britain was at Carinish

In 1601 a raiding party of MacLeods from Harris came south to Carinish and met a smaller force of MacDonalds. The fight beside Teampull na Trionaid is said to have been the last engagement in the British Isles fought with bows and arrows, though a claim is sometimes made for a skirmish in England in 1642. The ruined church beside the battlefield has its own legend: Bill Lawson records that it was said in its early days to have been a college of learning, 'even that it was the first university'.