Clan Mackintosh
also McIntosh
Captains of Clan Chattan, of Moy Hall.
- Origin
- The Highlands & Islands, Scotland
- Motto
- Touch not the cat bot a glove
- Famous bearer
- 'Colonel Anne' Mackintosh
- Register
- Scottish clan
The seat of Clan Mackintosh
Seat vacantChief
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Current mission
No shared goal set yet. Once Clan Mackintosh has leadership, it sets the public focus: a restoration, a gathering, a real-world project that helps its own.
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Help rebuild the Mackintosh clan →Motto
Touch not the cat bot a glove
What does the Mackintosh name mean?
From the Gaelic 'Mac an Tòisich', son of the chief or thane.
The history of Clan Mackintosh
The Mackintoshes are recorded in the Highlands from the 12th century. From the 14th they held the leadership of the Clan Chattan, a confederation of smaller Highland clans including the Macphersons, Davidsons, Farquharsons and others, bound together for mutual defence.
Their seat was Moy Hall, south of Inverness. The clan's loyalties were tested across the Jacobite period: the chief in 1745 was a government officer, but his wife, 'Colonel Anne' Mackintosh, raised the clan for the prince in his absence, and saved Bonnie Prince Charlie from capture in the famous 'Rout of Moy'.
The Mackintosh chief's line continues to the present day, and Moy Hall remains in the family.
Champions of the Mackintosh name
The bearers whose lives are inseparable from this surname. Each has its own page — biography, achievements, geography, connection to the family.
Step Into History
Walk the streets and seats the Mackintosh name knew — a photoreal walk through time, on foot.
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The old castle above the River Ness, the market cross and the seven-arched bridge — on the eve of Culloden.
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The great castle guarding the Great Glen, newly granted to the Grants of Freuchie, whole above Loch Ness.
Notable bearers of the Mackintosh name
- 'Colonel Anne' Mackintosh