MUIR (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre The MacColls are a branch

The MacColls are a branch of the Clan Donald who settled around Loch Fyne

Based on the design of a tartan Jacket said to have been worn by Prince Charles Edward Stuart at Culloden - earliest date 1746 - now preserved in the Scottish United Services Museum in Edinburgh Castle

or MacDuffie held lands on the Isle of Colonsay until the mid seventeenth century but were later scattered by the clearances

was produced for his own use by Sir Walter Scott in 1822

A portrait of Robert Grant of Lurg

MUIR (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre The MacColls are a branchThe Muir tartan has the traditional blue black green base, but with an unusual motif of three narrow red stripes appearing twice on the green square. A similar device is seen in the Cochrane tartan.