 Today members and descendants of the clan live all over the world.Much of the history of the Macdonalds of Sleat comes from traditional family histories, and it is often difficult, if not impossible, to tell fact from fiction.The clan histories relevant to the Macdonalds of Sleat were composed by the shenachies (historians or story tellers) MacVuirich – the Clanranald shenachie; and Hugh Macdonald – the Sleat shenachie.