Clan MacFarlane no longer has a chief, and is an armigerous clan
Chief (Mac a' Bhàirling or MacPhàrlain[1])
Historic seat
Arrochar
Last Chief
William MacFarlane, 20th Clan Chief
Died
1866
Septs of Clan MacFarlane
MacFarlane, Macfarlane, McFarlane, Mcfarlane
Allied clans
Clan Campbell Clan MacGregor Clan MacDonald of Keppoch
Rival clans
Clan Colquhoun Clan MacLaren
A Victorian era, romanticised depiction of a member of the clan by R. R. McIan, from The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, published in 1845.
Clan MacFarlane (Scottish Gaelic: Clann Phàrlain [ˈkʰl̪ˠãũn̪ˠˈfaːrˠl̪ˠɛn]) is a Highland Scottish clan. Descended from the medieval Earls of Lennox, the MacFarlanes occupied the land forming the western shore of Loch Lomond from Tarbet up-wards. From Loch Sloy, a small sheet of water near the foot of Ben Vorlich, they took their war cry of Loch Slòigh.
The clan was noted for the night time cattle raiding of neighbouring clan lands, (particularly those of Clan Colquhoun), and as such a full moon became known locally as "MacFarlane's Lantern". The ancestral lands of the clan were held by the chiefs until they were sold off for debts, in 1767. Since 1866 the chiefship has been dormant, no one having claimed or obtained rematriculation of the Chief Arms making Clan MacFarlane a supposed armigerous clan.[2]
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