Clan Munro
also Monro, Munroe, Clan Munro
From the Roe to Foulis — the clan of the Black Isle's northern shore.
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The seat of Clan Munro
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What does the Munro name mean?
From the Gaelic Mac an Rothaich — son of the man from the Roe — the Roe being the river Roe in Co. Derry, Ireland. The Munro tradition holds that Donald, the eponymous progenitor, came north from Ulster c.1025 to fight alongside Malcolm II against the Vikings. The Munros settled at Foulis on the north shore of the Cromarty Firth, where their seat at Foulis Castle remains the chiefly residence today — one of the longest-continuously-occupied family seats in Scotland.
The history of Clan Munro
The Munros of Foulis were one of the smaller Highland clans by territorial extent but strikingly disproportionate in their military and intellectual output. Sir Robert Munro, 6th of Foulis (d. 1633), and his successors were among the senior Protestant Highland chiefs of the 17th century, frequent allies of the Mackenzies and committed Covenanters. Sir Robert Munro, 27th of Foulis (1684–1746), commanded the Black Watch at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745 and died at Falkirk Muir on the Government side of the '45 — among the most professionally regarded British officers of his generation.
James Monroe (1758–1831), the fifth President of the United States and author of the Monroe Doctrine, was descended from a Munro line that had emigrated to Virginia in the 1640s after the Battle of Preston. Hector Hugh Munro (Saki, 1870–1916), the Burmese-born short-story writer, was a direct descendant of the Foulis-Munro chiefly line. Sir Hugh Munro (1856–1919), the geographer, gave his name to the 'Munros' — the 282 Scottish mountains over 3,000 feet — through his original 1891 list of summits.
Notable bearers of the Munro name
- James Monroe (1758–1831) — fifth President of the United States
- Saki / H. H. Munro (1870–1916) — short-story writer
- Sir Hugh Munro (1856–1919) — geographer; the 282 Munros bear his name