Scottish Clan Profile

Clan Chisholm

Siosalach — “territorial, from Chisholme in Roxburghshire”
“Feros ferio” · I strike the fierce
Indicative sett, woven in CSS, not a licensed tartan image
GaelicSiosalach
Historic titleThe Chisholm
HeartlandStrathglass, Inverness-shire
Plant badgeFern

A Borders family that moved north and became a Highland clan of Strathglass. Their chief is one of only three in Scotland entitled to be called simply 'The Chisholm'.

Ancestral seats

  • Erchless Castle, Struy

Where to walk in their footsteps

Access, opening hours and admission change. We confirm every site before it goes into an itinerary.

Chisholm Memorial Stone, Cannich

Roadside clan memorial raised by the Clan Chisholm Society in 1968, freely viewable.

The Chisholm Trail, Strathglass

Free self-guided heritage route linking six clan sites through Strathglass and Glen Affric.

Also recorded as

ChisolmChismSiosal

Travelling to Chisholm country

Cashel Travel has arranged clan gatherings and heritage tours across Scotland and Ireland since the 1990s, including full gatherings for Clan Gordon, Hay, Keith, Lindsay, Hunter, Dunbar, Graham, Sutherland and MacLaren. We research the family history, build the itinerary around it, and arrange access to places that are not normally open to the public.

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