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THE CELTIC MONTHLY.
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MINOR SEPTS OF CLAN CHATTAN.
Bv Charles Eraser-Mackintosh, LL.D.
No. V. — The Shaws. — Part I.
B-WiHE various tribes composing the Clan
^fcr Chattan were by clan historians grouped
^^^ under two heads — those who though of
a different name, united, associated, and incor-
porated themselves with and under the Mac-
kintosh as their leader, and those cadets
descended of his own house, of old classed under
the title of " Fuil 'ic an Toisich." that is of
Mackintosh, his blood. These last were nine in
number. The four tribes hitherto dealt with in
these papers, viz : MacGillivrays, Macbeans,
Maophails, and Macqueens had all voluntarily
associated themselves, and fell under the first
class above noted.
In the case of the Shaws, they, like the
Farr[uhar.sons, were buth of the class second,
above noted, being descended of Mackintosh ,
liis house; in course of time, however, they
became leaders of their own sept and assumed a
distinctive surname.
The name of Shaw became numerous, and is
both powerful and intiuential at the pre.sent
day, and while it is not asserted or claimed that
every Shaw is necessarily of Clan Chattan, the
clan is most willing to welcome all and every
Shaw disposed to come in, and adhere to the
connection.
In Sir Eneas Mackintosh's History he places
the Shaws second of the nine cadets of his own
house (the Toshes of Monyvaird being first).
and gives
I. — the descent of the fir.st Shaw of Rothie-
murchus as son of Gilchrist, son of John, son
of Angus, 6th Mackintosh, and it is generally
admitted that Shaw commanded the thirty of Clan
Chattan at the North Inch of Perth in 1.396, in
absence of his chief, incapacitated by age. From
the configuration of his front teeth Shaw was
called Co/T fiachlach, and for his valour ancl
success in 1396 was put in possession, though
without written title, of the lands of Rothie-
niurchus, which lands had been held by the
Mackintoshes of and under the Bishops of
Moray since the year 1236. Shaw is recorded
LOCH-AN EILEAX C■A^TI,E— THE ANCIENT STRONGHOLD OF THE SHAfl s dl RoTHlEML RLHl b