NISBET (ANCIENT) DISTRICT rendered in Lindsay as dark

rendered in Lindsay as dark blue

MacPhedran

and in particular with the MacDonells of Glengarry and the MacKenzies of Kintail

It is difficult to choose one MacDougall sett to be the 'Usual modern version'

NISBET (ANCIENT) DISTRICT rendered in Lindsay as darkThis is the sett that appears in the Vestiarium Scoticum as MacIntosh (Vestiarium Scotorum (1842) 87, Plate XXXI). There is no historical connection between the names Nisbet and MacIntosh to explain this, and it is interesting to note the similarity with the Dunbar tartan (where the white stripes are black) which also originates in the Vestiarium. The Nisbets came from the old barony of Nisbet in the parish of Edrom, Berwickshire, as early as 1160.