MACNEIL OF GIGHA & COLONSAY (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre DW Stewart recorded this pattern

DW Stewart recorded this pattern in 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' from a relic

who was executed for mutiny in 1743

There are two Clans of the name associated with districts as far apart as Dumbarton and Lewis and they have no family connection with each other

*NOTE: This tartan is on a weaving schedule due to be finished at the beginning of May 2025

from which she knitted the accompanying hose when a girl at the turn of the last century

MACNEIL OF GIGHA & COLONSAY (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre DW Stewart recorded this patternAlso known as Macneil of Colonsay. MacNeil tartans appear in pattern books produced by William Wilson & Sons of Bannockburn since the early nineteenth century, with various changes being made to the sett. Notes relating to the portrait of Murdoch MacNeil painted by Macleay in 1868 refer to 'the newly designed MacNeill of Colonsay tartan.'