INVERNESS (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre which first appeared in 1930

which first appeared in 1930

from a piece of tartan found in an old Morrison family bible

Notes relating to the portrait of Murdoch MacNeil painted by Macleay in 1868 refer to 'the newly designed MacNeill of Colonsay tartan

Lord of Badenoch - the Red Comyn

who by tradition has the final word on the tartans of the clan

INVERNESS (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre which first appeared in 1930Made for Augustus, Earl of Inverness, sometime prior to 1822. Logan used this sett to illustrate his method of recording tartans in his book, 'The Scottish Gael', published in 1831. The territorial designation of this Royal tartan makes it appropriate for use as a district tartan in the town and county of Inverness. The white stripe is sometimes rendered in yellow.