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The Shaw Clan

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Gaelic Name: Mac Ghille-Sheathanaich.


Tartan: Shaw


Origin of Name: Gaelic seaghdha (pithy).


Plant Badge: Red whortleberry.


Septs: MacAy, MacHay, Seath, Seth, Sheach.
Note: Adam (Ay) of Tordarroch, brother of Alasdair `Ciar', Chief of Clan Shaw, was founder of Clan Ay.





haw was one of the principal clans of Clan Chattan, a confederation of smaller clans.



Shaw "Mor", great-grandson of Angus, 6th Chief of MacKintosh was, by tradition, the leader of Clan Chattan at the battle on North Inch, Perth, in 1396. Rothiemurchus was given to him as a reward. His son, James, was killed at Harlaw in 1411 but his heir, Alasdair "Ciar" succeded him.


Alasdair's brother, Adam (Ay), of Tordarroch was founder of Clan Ay. Tordarroch acted for Clan Shaw and at Inverness in 1543 and in 1609 signed the Clan Chatten Bands. They supported Montrose and raised the Shaw contingent in the Jacobite rising of 1715.


Alasdiar's second son, Alexander, was ancestor of Shaws of Dell; his third, James, of Shaws of Dalnavert; his fourth, Farquhar, was progenitor of the Clan Farquharson and the fifth, Iver, ancestor of the Shaws of Harris and the Ilses.
A new chief of Clan Shaw (21st)was appointed in the 1970's after a vacancy of 400 years; Tordarroch in Strathnairn is still held.


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