Series 1 > Loyall dissuasive

INTRODUCTION
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give the reference. There was some alliance with Clan
Chattan which brought the Cat on to the helmet of Freskin.
The connection of Clan Chattan with the Lords and Kings
of the Isles has not been touched upon. I am convinced that
the Lymphad on the Cluny shield is the galley of Lome
with a difference. Sir iEneas tells us it represents the ship in
which the Catti arrived from Germany. It really tells of the
survival in Badenoch of the ancient race of the Isles and Lome.
Dunolly was once its home, and Ardchattan its central shrine,
and the Macdougals of Dunolly, and the Macdougals of the
graves in Ardchattan Priory, are kith and kin with Clan Vurich
and Clan Mackintosh.
To sum up the points of our search for Clan Chattan. It is
found, we believe, in Cinel Loarn, a great tribe springing from
Loarn, the brother of Fergus Mor, and one of the colonists
of Dalriada. The clan, at one period, found its home among
the aboriginal inhabitants of Badenoch and Lochaber, to
their great advantage. They became a people, one in reli¬
gion, one in government, one in custom, and alike in supersti¬
tion. Iona and its saints, and fellow-saints, were all-powerful.
The saint specially venerated by, or specially connected with,
the rulers of Cinel Loarn, was St. Cattan. From Dunolly
they built him a shrine at Ardchattan, where a miraculous
stone was preserved. On the flight of Murdach, the chief,
from Dunolly, or, on the approach of the Norse pirates, the
holy things were removed to Lochaber, and there some chief
of power, of a learned family, gained the custody of the holy
stone, and was proud to call himself gillie, or servant of
St. Chattan. This family of gillies of St. Chattan comes
into permanent prominence in the person of the greatest of
them, Gillie Chattan Mor—the great Gillie Chattan—the
founder of the clan, nearly related to the king or Maormore
of the consolidated province of Moray. His descendants, as
chiefs of great families, we recognise in ‘ Cluny Macpherson ’
and ‘ The Mackintosh,’ the former sprung from Neachtan, the
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