Finlaggan

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Finlaggan is a historic island settlement on Loch Finlaggan in Islay, Scotland, that served as the political and ceremonial center of the medieval Lords of the Isles.

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Label Occurrences
Finlaggan canonical 5

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf archaeological site
former island settlement
historic site
associatedWith Clan Donald
Gaelic lordship
Lordship of the Isles
bodyOfWater Loch Finlaggan
category archaeological sites in Argyll and Bute
medieval Scottish site
country Scotland
culturalSignificance symbol of Gaelic power in the Hebrides
currentUse archaeological research site
tourist attraction
flourishedIn 14th century
15th century
governanceType lordship centre
governedBy Lord of the Isles
surface form: Lords of the Isles
hasGaelicName Fionn Lagan
hasPart Eilean Mòr
Eilean na Comhairle
causeways
chapel ruins
island settlement remains
medieval buildings
stone foundations
hasVisitorCentre Finlaggan Visitor Centre
heritageDesignation scheduled monument
site of special archaeological interest
historicRegion Scottish Islands
surface form: Hebrides
isOn freshwater loch
isPartOf Inner Hebrides
Islay
languageContext Scottish Gaelic
locatedIn Inner Hebrides
Islay
Loch Finlaggan
Scotland
United Kingdom
managedBy Finlaggan Trust
near Ballygrant
notableFor medieval inauguration ceremonies
role as council island of the Lords of the Isles
significance centre of the Lordship of the Isles
seat of the Lords of the Isles
timePeriod Middle Ages
tourismRegion Argyll and Bute
usedAs ceremonial centre
political centre
usedBy Lord of the Isles
surface form: Lords of the Isles

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Finlaggan
Description of subject: Finlaggan is a historic island settlement on Loch Finlaggan in Islay, Scotland, that served as the political and ceremonial center of the medieval Lords of the Isles.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

clan MacDonald historicSeat Finlaggan
subject surface form: Clan MacDonald
Lordship of the Isles capital Finlaggan
Clan Donald historicSeat Finlaggan