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'

"The exact origins are unknown

This is an alternative version of the 'Modern'

1704 is at Broomhill near Hamilton

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

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.