see Irish clan McLaughlin (surname) The progenitor of this family, Anrothan, son of Aodh O'Neil, king of the north of Ireland, is said to have married the heiress of the King of Scots and gained lands campaigning there. Lachlan belonged to the family who originally emigrated from Ireland to Scotland in the 11th century. Ĭlan Maclachlan claims descent from Lachlan Mor, who lived on the shores of Loch Fyne in the 13th century. The Clan Maclachlan Society consists of eight branches around the world, including Australia, Britain & Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States of America. The Lachlan Trust is a registered Scottish charitable organisation which takes donations to preserve the heritage of Clan Maclachlan. Today the clan is alive and lives as the Clan Maclachlan Society and the Lachlan Trust. Following the Jacobite defeat, a Government warship is said to have damaged the clan seat of old Castle Lachlan. The seventeenth chief of the clan was killed in the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The clan took part in the Jacobite risings as loyal supporters of the Stuart kings of Scotland. From this descent the clan claims a further descent from the legendary Niall Noigíallach, High King of Ireland, who lived from the mid 4th century to the early 5th century. Clan Maclachlan has been associated with other clans, such as Clan Lamont, Clan Ewen of Otter, Clan MacNeil of Barra, and the MacSweens: as all claim descent from Anrothan O'Neill who left Ireland for Kintyre in the 11th century. Tradition gives Lachlan Mor a descent from an Irish prince of the O'Neill dynasty, Ánrothán Ua Néill, son of Áed, son of Flaithbertach Ua Néill, King of Ailech and Cenél nEógain, died 1036.
The clan claims descent from Lachlan Mor, who lived on Loch Fyne in the 13th century, and who has left his name upon the countryside he once controlled: places such as Strathlachlan, Castle Lachlan and Lachlan Bay. McIan, from The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, published in 1845Ĭlan Maclachlan, also known as Clan Lachlan, Clann Lachainn (Argyll), and Clann Lachlainn, is a Highland Scottish clan that historically centred on the lands of Strathlachlan (Srath Lachainn "Valley of Lachlan") on Loch Fyne, Argyll on the west coast of Scotland. A Victorian-era romanticised depiction of a member of the clan by R.
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