 General Wade's report on the Highlands in 1724, estimated the clan strength ("Macdonel's of Moidart") at 800 men.Ranald, 15th of Clanranald never married and died at Fauborg St Germains, in 1725 and was buried in Paris.He was succeeded by Donald Macdonald of Benbecula, to whom the forfeited Clanranald estates were later restored.