The Clan Details:
- Gaelic Name: Mac Eoghainn (Son of Ewan)
- Origin: Celtic / Norse
- The Chief: MacEwan of Muckley
- Motto: Reviresco (I grow strong again.) Diew premier servi (I serve God first)
- Plant Badge: Little Periwinkle
- Crest Badge: The trunk of an oak tree from which sprouts forth young branches.
- Area: Loch Fyne, Argyll
- Sept Names: No Sept names have been determined
There are two types of Septs.
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Clansmen of the clan who were related by blood and formed separate divisions.
- Individuals and groups who looked for and got the protection of the clan.
This resulted in people with the same surname being attached to different clans, therefore a clan had septs of various names. My family were septs, they sought and received protection from the MacLachlan clan.
Septs can wear the tartan of the clan to which they belong, although today, some septs (like us) have their own tartan.
The Clan History.
Branch of the Siol Gillivray, desended from Gillivray, father of the Somerled, Lord of the Isles. In the 13th century the MacEwans possessed a large part of Cowel.
The first Ewan of Otter lived c 1220. Gillespie, 5th Lord of Otter, lived c 1315. In 1432 Swene MacEwan, 9th and last Lord of Otter, resigned the Barony of Otterweran to King James I, but had it returned. Subsequently, he signed it over to the Campbells, who thereafter were the Lords of Otter.
Largely as a result of this the MacEwans became scattered and sought protection from the other clans - the MacLachlans, the Campbells of Craignish, and the Earl of Argyll. Some went to Lennox, to Lochaber, Perth, Skye and Galloway.
Elspeth MacEwan, executed in Kircudbridght in 1698, was the last witch put to death in Scotland.
A family of MacEwans were hereditary bards to Campbell of Glenorchy for which they received free land.
On the shore of Loch Fyne a few remains are all that is left of the MacEwan castle.
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