MACRAE OF CONCHRA (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'M' Stewart notes in his Nomindex

Stewart notes in his Nomindex 'Remarkable similarity to the Double Davidson

The MacNeils claim descent from Niall

by a translation of colours

which is unusual as the precise shade of tartan colours is normally left to the discretion of the weaver

MACRAE OF CONCHRA (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'M' Stewart notes in his NomindexMajor John MacRae Gilstrap of Otter Ferry furnished the following in 1904 re this tartan. "When my great great grandfather, John MacRae of Conchra, Lochalsh, was on his way to Sherrifmuir from Kintail, some of his followers being without stockings, the occupants of a shieling in which some of them lodged, spent the night in cutting out stockings for them from a web of cloth which they had in the place. A piece of this web was in the possession of my