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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.

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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 Isles

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

  • Orkney

    The northern earldom — Norse for centuries before Sinclair.

  • Shetland

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