MACDONALD OF KINGSBURGH (ANCIENT) WEATHERED the country of Clan Grant

the country of Clan Grant

was on his way to Sherrifmuir from Kintail

Wilson called the pattern No

Major John MacRae-Gilstrap of Otter Ferry furnished the following in 1904 re this tartan

has had the concurrence of a gentleman of the name

MACDONALD OF KINGSBURGH (ANCIENT) WEATHERED the country of Clan GrantDW Stewart recorded this pattern in 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' from a relic. James Scarlett MBE explains that it was a waistcoat given to Prince Charles Edward Stuart by MacDonald of Kingsbrugh. Too bright for his use, the Bonnie Prince exchanged it with one Malcolm Macleod of Macleod who, before his capture by Government forces, hid it in a rock cleft. After his release a year later he retrieved it but only a small scrap had survived undamaged.