Crest: A dexter hand holding a dagger in pale Proper
Motto
Per ardua (Through hardship or difficulty)
War cry
Cruachan!
Profile
District
Argyll
Plant badge
White Heather
Pipe music
We Will Take The Good Old Way
Chief
Donald Russell MacIntyre of Glenoe[2][3][4]
Chief of the Name and Arms of MacIntyre
Historic seat
Glen Noe
Allied clans
Clan Chattan,
Clan MacFarlane
Clan MacIntyre (McIntyre) (Scottish Gaelic: Clann an t-Saoir[ˈkʰl̪ˠãũn̪ˠən̪ˠˈt̪ʰɯːɾʲ]) is a Highland Scottish clan. The name MacIntyre (from Scottish Gaelic Mac an t-Saoir), means "son of the carpenter.” It is most commonly said to descend from Maurice Mac Neil a nephew of Somerled, the great 12th century leader of the Scottish Gaels. Through an ingenious strategy, Maurice secured the marriage of Somerled to the daughter of the King of Mann and the Isles, thus greatly increasing Somerled's territories. At an unknown date the clan journeyed from the Hebrides to the Scottish mainland where the chiefs established their home at Glen Noe, in Ardchattan Parish, on the east side of Loch Etive.
The earliest recorded clan chiefs do not emerge until the 17th century. According to tradition, they had held the land at Glen Noe for centuries, although subject to a feudal tenure converted to money rent in later years. In 1806, however, the chief was forced to relinquish the tenancy of Glen Noe due to inability to meet the payments. He and his family subsequently emigrated to the United States.
MacIntyres participated in military campaigns during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Jacobite rising of 1745–46 but they did not operate as an independent body. Clan members served as hereditary foresters to the Lords of Lorne and as hereditary pipers to the chiefs of Clan Menzies and the MacDonalds of Clanranald. Duncan Ban MacIntyre is regarded as one of the finest Gaelic poets.
^Mac an Tàilleir, Iain. "Ainmean Pearsanta" (docx). Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. Retrieved 15 October 2009.
^Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th ed., vol. 2, 2003, p. 2497
^Clan MacIntyre: A Journey to the Past, Martin L. MacIntyre, Regent Press (California), 2018, pp. 106, 274
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