Clans of the The Highlands & Islands
The vast, sea-girt north and west, Sutherland, Caithness, Ross, the Aird, Lochaber, Skye, Badenoch and the Outer Hebrides. The cradle of most of Scotland's most famous clans.
Tap a region of the map to see who held it.
Historic territories of the The Highlands & Islands · 11
Caithness
Caithness (Highland)Norse-edged corner of the mainland, Sinclair country.
Sutherland
Sutherland (Highland)The 'south land' of the Norse, Mackays and the Earls of Sutherland.
Easter Ross & Cromarty
Ross (Highland)The east-coast seat of the Mackenzies and the Rosses of Balnagown.
Wester Ross & Lochalsh
Wester Ross (Highland)Eilean Donan and the western mainland, Mackenzies of Kintail.
Skye
Eilean a' Cheò (Highland)The Misty Isle, MacLeod of Dunvegan and MacDonald of Sleat.
Lochaber
Lochaber (Highland)Glen of the seven lochs, Cameron of Lochiel country.
Inverness & the Aird
Inverness (Highland)Capital of the Highlands, Fraser of Lovat, Mackintosh of Moy.
Badenoch & Strathspey
Badenoch & Strathspey (Highland)Cairngorm slopes and the Spey, Grant and Macpherson lands.
The Outer Hebrides
Eilean Siar / Western IslesLewis, Harris, the Uists and Barra, MacLeods, MacDonalds, MacNeils.
The northern earldom, Norse for centuries before Sinclair.
Sixty miles further north, closer to Bergen than to Edinburgh.
Step Into History
Walk the streets and halls this name knew — a photoreal walk through time, on foot.
Step Into History · New
The old castle above the River Ness, the market cross and the seven-arched bridge — on the eve of Culloden.
Step Into History · New
The sea-girt seat of the MacLeods on Skye — the keep, the Fairy Tower, and the Fairy Flag in the chief's hall.
Step Into History · New
The great castle guarding the Great Glen, newly granted to the Grants of Freuchie, whole above Loch Ness.