Clan Grant

To Meet as many Grant’s as I can on my journey to our ancestral hometown of Grantown on Spey, Scotland and then return home to Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania. I've been around Berks County, Now it is time to go to Scotland

The Kilt Pin has the "Clan Badge" "A mountain inflamed, proper". This represents "Craigellachie" (pronounced "K-ray-g-El-uh-hee") the so-called "Rock of Alarm", the gathering place for the Clan when the signal fires were lit on its summit to rally the Clan to battle. The badge is encircled by a buckled strap with the Clan's motto of "Stand Fast" on it. The buckled strap indicates a clansman's allegiance to their clan and Chief, and indicates that the badge is not their own. This is as close as a clansman comes to a "coat-of-arms". The clan plant badge for Clan Grant is the Scots Pine - a sprig of which was typically worn in the clansman's bonnet to identify his clan. "Stand Fast, Craigellachie" (pronounced "K-ray-g-El-uh-hee"), is the Slogan of the Clan; this was used to rally the Grants to arms from a burning beacon at the summit of Craig Elachie, a high hill in Strathspey near the town of Aviemoire. They would assemble for battle in distinctive red and green tartan, the Grants being the first clan to adopt a common tartan. Later, the green and blue hunting tartan of the Grants became famous as the "Black Watch" tartan, used by the regiment that was co-founded by a Grant, and which had many Grants among its original men. Our people come from two great glens of the Highlands: Strathspey and Glenurquhart. The first recorded Clan Chief was Sir Lawrence le Grant in the year 1263. The Present Clan Chief, Lord Strathspey, 33rd Chief of Grant, is his direct descendant. The Strathspey seat of the Clan was Castle Grant near Grantown-on-Spey. The Grants of Glen Urquhart and Glen Moriston are associated with the awesome Castle Urquhart which overlooks Loch Ness at the very spot where the Monster is often claimed to have been sighted. For more information about Clan Grant, go to the website: (visit link) The information for this travel bug was obtained from the Clan Grant Society Website