JOHNSTON (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre The MacNeils claim descent from

The MacNeils claim descent from Niall

original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) woven by Wilson's of Bannockburn around 1850

the country of Clan Grant

but it can be seen in the Cockburn Collection of the same period as the Highland Society of London sample of the Red and Black (#1504)

JOHNSTON (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre The MacNeils claim descent fromAlso Johnstone. Scottish Tartans Society notes: A powerful Border Clan who pursued a deadly feud with the Maxwells. Their stronghold was Lochwood Tower, near Beattock, which was burned down by the Maxwells in 1593. The tartan was first published in the Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842. Before that time Border tartans were generally unnamed. More likely the tartan came from the Aberdeenshire Johnstons, whose family seat is at Caskieben, Blackburn.