MacGill Modern
The MacGills are considered a sept of the MacDonald clan and resided in Galloway, southwest Scotland, before settling in the island of Jura in the 18th century. The name MacGill is believed to derive from the Gaelic ‘Mac A Ghoill’ which means ‘son of the stranger’ or lowlander. One of the first records of this name was in 1231 when Maurice Macgeil witnessed a charter of the Earl of Leuenach to a church in Arbroath. This tartan is thought to have been worn in Jura before 1745, lost until a fragment was rediscovered in Kintyre.
