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

the country of Clan Grant

with green for Central Park

was on his way to Sherrifmuir from Kintail

Scottish Tartans Society records: said to have been worn by George

This is the correct version of the asymmetrical Malcolm as shown by the woven sample in W and A Smith's 1850 publication 'The Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland'

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.