Clans of the The Highlands & Islands

Historic territories of the The Highlands & Islands · 11

• Caithness

  Caithness (Highland)

  Norse-edged corner of the mainland, Sinclair country.

  • Sinclair

• Sutherland

  Sutherland (Highland)

  The 'south land' of the Norse, Mackays and the Earls of Sutherland.

  • Mackay
  • Sutherland

• Easter Ross & Cromarty

  Ross (Highland)

  The east-coast seat of the Mackenzies and the Rosses of Balnagown.

  • Mackenzie
  • Ross
  • Munro

• Wester Ross & Lochalsh

  Wester Ross (Highland)

  Eilean Donan and the western mainland, Mackenzies of Kintail.

  • Mackenzie
  • Ross

• Skye

  Eilean a' Cheò (Highland)

  The Misty Isle, MacLeod of Dunvegan and MacDonald of Sleat.

  • MacDonald
  • Maclean
  • MacLeod

• Lochaber

  Lochaber (Highland)

  Glen of the seven lochs, Cameron of Lochiel country.

  • Henderson
  • MacDonald
  • Cameron

• Inverness & the Aird

  Inverness (Highland)

  Capital of the Highlands, Fraser of Lovat, Mackintosh of Moy.

  • Gow
  • Rose
  • Fraser
  • Mackintosh

• Badenoch & Strathspey

  Badenoch & Strathspey (Highland)

  Cairngorm slopes and the Spey, Grant and Macpherson lands.

  • Davidson
  • Grant

• The Outer Hebrides

  Eilean Siar / Western Isles

  Lewis, Harris, the Uists and Barra, MacLeods, MacDonalds, MacNeils.

  • MacDonald
  • MacLeod
  • Morrison

• Orkney

  The northern earldom, Norse for centuries before Sinclair.

• Shetland

  Sixty miles further north, closer to Bergen than to Edinburgh.