MACLEOD OF HARRIS (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre It is difficult to choose

It is difficult to choose one MacDougall sett to be the 'Usual modern version'

It is claimed that in earlier times the Highland clergy wore the Highland dress and carried arms and that many attempts were made to prevent them wearing tartan and to force them to wear conventional ministerial habit

it appears in Highland Society of London collection as Galbraith

there is indeed black guards on the white stripe

1704 is at Broomhill near Hamilton

MACLEOD OF HARRIS (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre It is difficult to chooseAlso known as MacLeod of Harris. The sett has its source in the MacKenzie tartan used in 1777 by John MacKenzie called Lord MacLeod when he raised a regiment called 'Lord MacLeod's Highlanders'. The family claimed to be heirs of the last chief of Lewis, Roderick, who had died in 1595.