Heritage Travel

Clan & Family Names A to Z

63 Scottish clans, Irish families and English family names

Cashel Travel has arranged clan gatherings and family heritage tours across Scotland and Ireland since the 1990s. This A to Z profiles the Scottish clans and the Irish and English family names we are most often asked to build itineraries around.

Each entry covers the name and its Gaelic form, the motto, the historic heartland, and the castles, kirkyards and clan lands you can still visit today. Clan lore is contested and sources frequently disagree, so anything that could not be corroborated has been left out rather than filled in.

Scottish clans (47)

BruceAnnandale, Clackmannan & Fife BuchananEast shore of Loch Lomond CameronLochaber CampbellArgyll, Loch Awe & Inveraray ChisholmStrathglass, Inverness-shire DouglasDouglasdale, Lanarkshire & the Borders DunbarEast Lothian, Moray & the Borders FarquharsonBraemar & upper Deeside ForbesDonside, Aberdeenshire GordonAberdeenshire & Strathbogie GrahamStirlingshire, Menteith & Montrose GrantStrathspey & Glen Urquhart GunnCaithness & east Sutherland HayThe Carse of Gowrie, Erroll & Buchan HunterNorth Ayrshire & the Clyde coast JohnstoneAnnandale, Dumfriesshire KeithEast Lothian & the Mearns KerrTeviotdale & Roxburghshire LeslieThe Garioch, Aberdeenshire & Fife LindsayAngus & the Mearns MacDonaldThe Hebrides & Lochaber MacDougallLorn, Argyll MacGregorGlen Orchy, Glenstrae & Balquhidder MacIntyreGlen Noe, Loch Etive MacKayStrathnaver & north-west Sutherland MacKenzieKintail, Ross-shire & Wester Ross MacKinnonMull, Iona & Strathaird in Skye MacLarenBalquhidder & Strathearn MacLeanMull, Morvern, Coll & Tiree MacLeodSkye, Harris & Lewis MacMillanKnapdale & Loch Arkaig MacNabGlen Dochart & Loch Tay MacNeilBarra & Gigha MacPhersonBadenoch, Speyside MacRaeKintail, Wester Ross MaxwellNithsdale & the Solway MenziesWeem, Rannoch & Appin of Dull, Perthshire MunroFerindonald, Easter Ross MurrayAtholl & highland Perthshire OgilvyThe Angus glens, Glen Isla & Glen Clova RobertsonAtholl & Rannoch RossEaster Ross & Balnagown ScottTeviotdale, Ettrick & Liddesdale SinclairCaithness & Orkney Stewart / StuartRenfrewshire, Bute, Atholl & Appin SutherlandSutherland WallaceRenfrewshire & Ayrshire

Irish families (9)

BurkeCos. Galway & Mayo ByrneCo. Wicklow & the Wicklow mountains FitzGeraldCo. Kildare, and Desmond in Cos. Limerick, Cork & Kerry LynchGalway city, with Gaelic septs in Cos. Clare, Cavan & Sligo MooreLaois — the old kingdom of Loígis O'BrienThomond — Co. Clare & north Munster O'ConnorCo. Roscommon, with separate septs in Offaly, Kerry, Clare, Derry & Armagh O'DonnellTír Chonaill — Co. Donegal O'SullivanThe Beara peninsula & south Kerry

English families (7)

CavendishDerbyshire & the Peak District NevilleCounty Durham, Yorkshire & the north PercyNorthumberland, with medieval holdings in Yorkshire SeymourWiltshire & the Savernake country, with a Devon branch SpencerNorthamptonshire & Oxfordshire StanleyLancashire, Merseyside & Cheshire WindsorBerkshire & the Thames Valley

Clan and heritage tours

If you have found your name above, the next step is an itinerary built around it.

Scottish clan tours

Gatherings, private castle access and Highland clan lands, arranged end to end.

Irish family heritage tours

Ancestral parishes, record offices and the counties your family came from.

Bringing your clan to Scotland or Ireland?

Tell us the name and the rough numbers. We will come back with an outline of the week and a per-person price, at no charge.

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