The Highlanders of Scotland - Clan Strachan Society

CHAP. IV] OF SCOTLAND 251
history of the subsequent generations. Although the Maclachlans
were thus reduced by the Campbells to a species of dependence,
the\' still remained a clan of considerable strength, and for a
long period do not appear to have been subject to any great
change in their condition : in the year 1745 their strength was
estimated at three hundred men.
Quarterly.
coupee
A rms.
First—
Or, a lion rampant gules. .Second— Argent, a hand
fessways, holding a cross, crosslet, fitchee, gules. Third—
Or, a galley, her oars in saltyre, sable, placed in a sea proper.
— Argent, in a base undee vert, a salmon naiant, proper.
Fourth
Badoe.
Mountain ash.
Principal Seat.
Strathlachlane in Cowall.
Oldest Cadet.
Maclachlan of Coruanan, in Lochaber.
Chief.
Maclachlan of Maclachlan.
Force.
In 1745, 300.
Clan Ewen.
The Reverend Mr. Alexander Macfarlane, in his excellent
account of the parish of Killfinnan, says, " on a rocky point on
the coast of Lochfine, about a mile below the church, is to be
seen the vestige of a building called Caesteal Mhic Eobhuin>
and he adds, " This Mac Ewen was
i.e., Mac Ewen's castle "
;
the chief of a clan, and proprietor of the northern division of the
parish called Otter." The reverend gentleman professes his
inability to discover who this Mac Ewen was, but this omission
is supplied by the manuscript of 1450, which contains the
"
genealogy of the clan Eoghan na Hoitreic," or clan Ewen of
Otter, and in which they are brought from Anradan, the common
ancestor of the Maclachlans and Macneills.
This family became ver}^ soon extinct, and their property
gave a title to a branch of the Campbells ;
consequently, we know nothing whatever.
of their history