MACNEIL OF GIGHA & COLONSAY (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre There are two Clans of

There are two Clans of the name associated with districts as far apart as Dumbarton and Lewis and they have no family connection with each other

This is the sett featured in W and A Smith's 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland' (1850)

DW Stewart recorded this pattern in 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' from a relic

*NOTE: This tartan is on a weaving schedule due to be finished at the beginning of May 2025

This is the Urquhart of Urquhart tartan

MACNEIL OF GIGHA & COLONSAY (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre There are two Clans ofAlso known as Macneil of Colonsay. MacNeil tartans appear in pattern books produced by William Wilson & Sons of Bannockburn since the early nineteenth century, with various changes being made to the sett. Notes relating to the portrait of Murdoch MacNeil painted by Macleay in 1868 refer to 'the newly designed MacNeill of Colonsay tartan.'