MacRae Conchra Ancient

CRAE, CREE, MACCRAW, MACARA, MACARRA, MACCRA, MACCRACH, MACCRAITH, MACCRAY, MACCREA, MACCREATH, MACCREE, MACCRIE, MACCROW, MACCROY, MACGRATH, MACGRAW, MACHRAY, MACRA, MACRACH, MACRAITH, MACRATH, MACRAW, MACRAY, MACRIE, MCCRAW, MCARA, MCARRA, MCCRA, MCCRACH, MCRAE, MCCRAITH, MCCRAY, MCCREA, MCCREATH, MCCREE, MCCRIE, MCCROW, MCCROY, MCGRATH, MCGRAW, MCHRAY, MCRA, MCRACH, MCRAITH, MCRATH, MCRAW, MCRAY, MACRIE, RAE, RAITH, RAY, REA, REATH

War Cry: Sgur Urain (A Mountain at Kintail)

Clan Badge: Fir Club Moss

Major 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 grand-aunt Miss Flora MacRa (sic) of Ardintoul, from which she knitted the accompanying hose when a girl at the turn of the last century' (1880s). 'Unfortunately the original piece of cloth has been lost.' 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893), contains a selection of forty five setts, woven in silk, of special interest or antiquity. Many of the illustrated tartans owe their present day popularity to the publication of this work. The author was D W Stewart. Today, Conchra is a tiny village 9 miles (14km) due east of Kyle of Lochalsh in the Scottish Highlands.