- Mill: Loch
- Weight: 11 oz.
- Clan Motto: Aonaibh Ri Chéile ("Let Us Unite")
- Known Septs Include: CHALMERS, CHAMBERS, CLARK, CLARKE, CLARKSON, CLEARY, CLERK, DOWIE, GIBBON, GILBERTSON, KENNEDY, LEARY, LONIE, MACALDOWIE, MACALONIE, MACCHLERY, MACCLAIR, MACCLEARY, MACGILLERY, MACGILLONIE, MACILDOWIE, MACKAIL, MACKELL, MACLEAR, MACLEARY, MACLERIE, MACMARTIN, MACONIE, MACOSTRICH, MACPHAIL, MACSORLEY, MACULRIG, MACVAIL, MACWALRICK, MARTIN, PAUL, SORLEY, SORLIE, TAYLOR
- Notes:
Donald Cameron of Lochiel has a joined plaid in this sett C.1820. The sett is taken from a portrait in Achnacarry of the Gentle Lochiel painted by George Chalmers in 1764. Iain .B. Cameron Taylor wrote, ''Of the known Cameron tartans in existence today, the Chief's personal tartan, the Cameron of Lochiel, is undoubtably the oldest." DC Stewart said of this sett: "In general the Smiths' illustrations contain few slips." Another comment said "Lochiel is said to have bought a quantity of tartan in Glasgow for the clansmen he raised to meet Pr. Ch. Ed, at Glenfinnan. Is this it?" In their 1850 book "The Clan and Family Tartans of Scotland" William and Andrew Smith of Mauchline wrote: "The pattern here given was sent to us by Lochiel, the undoubted Chief of the Clan, who says it is what he has always considered the Tartan of the Camerons, and is the same as represented upon a portrait of one of his ancestors, in the possession of Sir Duncan Cameron of Collart." This entry has been verified as being the same as the Smiths - the Clans Originaux version at 6149 is slightly different.