As committed Roman Catholics, Clan Ranald took part in the first Jacobite rebellion, in 1689. According to Clan Ranald tradition, in May of the following year Edward Pottinger, a Royal Navy captain from Ulster, decided to take revenge for this, by inducing his men to carry out large scale rape and murder on Eigg; the ship's log for Pottinger's ship, however, does not mention these events. To evade the restrictions the government subsequently imposed on Roman Catholic services, the remaining inhabitants of Eigg began to secretly hold services in a large high-roofed cave, which became known as the "cave of worship" (now "Cathedral Cave").