URQUHART (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'U' The sett has its source

The sett has its source in the MacKenzie tartan used in 1777 by John MacKenzie called Lord MacLeod when he raised a regiment called 'Lord MacLeod's Highlanders'

The association was not always a happy one and the 'broken' MacEwans settled in various parts of Lennox

This is the sett that appears in the Vestiarium Scoticum as MacIntosh (Vestiarium Scotorum (1842) 87

blue background of the Highland military tartans with twin red stripes on the green

This sett in its shortened form begins to resemble the MacGregor tartan

URQUHART (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'U' The sett has its sourceFirst recorded in the 1810 Cockburn Collection. This is the Urquhart of Urquhart tartan. The sett also appears in the work of W and A Smith (1850) who claim that their sample was collected in the Highlands by George Hunter, the Army clothier prior to 1822.