 However, he managed to gather support among the MacGill'Eain ("MacLean") kindred of Duart, the MacLeoid kindred of Lewis and Harris, and the MacNeill kindred of Barra, as well as the support of the Scottish crown and John Stewart, Earl of Atholl; but, Aonghas had the important support of Domhnall Ballach and the rest of the MacDomhnaill kindred.Aonghas gathered his forces and those of his allies against the armies of his father, and a great sea battle took place near Tobermory, the Battle of the Bloody Bay, probably in the year 1481, in which Aonghas defeated the galleys of his father's west highland allies.In the same year, another battle took place at Lagabraad, in which Aonghas defeated a royal army led by the Earl of Atholl.