JOHNSTON (MODERN) Choose:By the metre the MacLeods and the Gordons

the MacLeods and the Gordons

King of Ireland

three black stryps upon ain yellow fylde

Donald Ban

This sett is one of those delivered to the Society between 1815 and 1822

JOHNSTON (MODERN) Choose:By the metre the MacLeods and the GordonsAlso Johnstone. Scottish Tartans Society notes: A powerful Border Clan who pursued a deadly feud with the Maxwells. Their stronghold was Lochwood Tower, near Beattock, which was burned down by the Maxwells in 1593. The tartan was first published in the Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842. Before that time Border tartans were generally unnamed. More likely the tartan came from the Aberdeenshire Johnstons, whose family seat is at Caskieben, Blackburn.