Scottish Clan Profile

Clan Murray

Moireach — “territorial, from Moray, 'the sea settlement'”
“Furth fortune and fill the fetters”
Indicative sett, woven in CSS, not a licensed tartan image
GaelicMoireach
Historic titleDuke of Atholl
HeartlandAtholl & highland Perthshire
Plant badgeButcher's broom

A great Perthshire house descended from the old province of Moray. The Dukes of Atholl at Blair Castle keep the Atholl Highlanders, the only legal private army in Europe, by grant of Queen Victoria.

Ancestral seats

  • Blair Castle, Blair Atholl
  • Scone Palace, Perth

Where to walk in their footsteps

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

Blair Castle, Blair Atholl

Seat of the Dukes of Atholl, with 30 rooms open and the Hercules Garden.

Scone Palace, Perth

Home of the Murray Earls of Mansfield on the crowning place of Scottish kings.

Also recorded as

MorayMurrieMacMurray

Travelling to Murray 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.

Plan a heritage tour