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From the Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia, by George Way of Plean and Romilly Squire, published by Collins (1994), under "Clan Ross," pp. 308-9, is the following excerpt:
"In the ancient Celtic tongue, a ros was a promontory, such as the fertile land between the Cromarty and Dornoch Firths. Those who bore the name rose to be Earls of Ross, and it is believed that the first Earl, Malcolm, who lived in the early twelfth century, allied his family to O'Beolan of the great Irish royal house of Tara, by the marriage of his daughter. The clan was sometimes also referred to as Clan Anrias, or Gille Andras, alluding to Anrias, a distinguished O'Beolan ancestor. It has also been suggested that another variation, 'MicGille Andras', 'son of the follower of St. Andrew', derives from one of the ancient earls who was devoted to Scotland's patron saint.
In 1214, Alexander II led his army to the north to put down the rebellion of the son of Donald Bane, a rival claimant to the throne. He was aided by the chief of Clan Ross, Fearchar Mac an t'sagirt, which in English acclaimed him to be 'son of the priest,' alluding to his O'Beolan descent from the hereditary Abbots of Applecross. Fearchar was knighted by his king, and by 1234 he was formal recognized in the title of Earl of Ross…"
Most of the respected authorities on this earldom, however, begin with Fearchar MacTaggart ("Mac-an-t-Sagairt" according to Agnes Mure Mackenzie (The Foundations of Scotland, 1938). His son William was followed by William Fearchar's grandson, then Hugh, then Hugh's son William (by his first wife Maud Bruce), then William's daughter Euphemia, her son Alexander de Ross, then to his cousin Alexander MacDonald, in turn his son John, who resigned his titles to the crown in July 1476 (sources: Burke's Peerage MCMLXIII, p. 1547; The Complete Peerage, VII, pp. 76-7; The Complete Peerage, XI, p. 145, 147; The Scots Peerage, I, p. 14; The Scots Peerage, II, p. 261; The Scots Peerage, VI, p. 297, et al.).
As to the question could the two Pauls be one in the same person, Paul MacTyre was, according to several later unverified manuscripts, an heir to the fifth Earl of Ross, who died without a male heir in 1333. Olav 'the Red' died in 1153. That's a chronologically impossible hundred and seventy year span. That alone would seem to answer the question. At any rate, I hope this is helpful.
Jim
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