The map below shows the traditional Highland lands of Clan Drummond, as well as some of the surrounding Highland clans. The red line directly to the southwest of the Drummond territory is the Highland line, a great geographic fault separating the Highlands from the Lowlands. The Lowlands run east-west through the central section of Scotland, as well sweeping north up the east coast. "The Lowland border with the Highlands," states Charles MacKinnon, author of Scottish Highlanders, "begins in the west at Dumbarton, on the north bank of the River Clyde, and progresses northwards and eastwards to embrace an eastern plain which stretches from Fife, through the rich Carse of Gowrie, up past Aberdeen and then sweeps round the north-east shoulder of Scotland and along the edge of the Moray Firth, past Nairn right up to Inverness itself."1
There really is not a set list of Highland clans; however, Clan Drummond is included in even the most conservative of lists. The list of Highland clans given to the Government in London in 1745 by Lord President Forbes of Culloden included the following: Cameron, Campbell, Chisholm, Drummond, Farquharson, Fraser, Gordon, Grant, MacDonald of Sleat, MacDonald of Clanranald, MacDonald of Glengarry, MacDonald of Glencoe, Macdonell of Keppoch, MacDougall, MacGregor, MacIntosh, MacKay, MacLachan, MacLean, MacLeod, MacKenzie, MacKinnon, Macpherson, Menzies, Munro, Murray, Robertson, Ross, Sinclair, Stewart, and Sutherland.2 The main Stewarts of the Highlands are the Stewarts of Appin.3 The "royal" Stewarts, of course, were not Highlanders at all.4 In addition to these, Charles MacKinnon includes the following clans not listed by Forbes: Buchanan, Colquhoun, Comyn, Davidson, Forbes, Graham, Gunn, Lamont, MacAlister, MacArthur, MacAulay, MacBain, MacFarlane, MacFie, MacGillivray, MacInnes, Macnab, MacNaughten, MacNeil, MacQuarrie, MacRae, Mathieson, Rose, Shaw, Skene, and Urquhart. Stobhall, the home of the chief's eldest son, is 7 miles northeast of Perth. Copyright © 2004-2008 S. Archer 1
MacKinnon, Charles. Scottish Highlanders. (New
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