Clan Maclaine of Lochbuie

Clan Name: Mac'ill-Eathain Locchabuide (Gaelic) - "Maclaine of Lochbuie"

Origin of Name: MacGhille Eoin (Gaelic) - means "Son of the Servant of John". The clan takes its name from the son of (Mac) Gillean (Ghille Eoin).

Motto: Vincere vel Mori (Latin) - means "To Conquer or Die".

Lands: Lochbuie, Isle of Mull.

Arms : Quarterly: 1st argent, a lion rampant gules; 2nd or, a lymphad, sails furled, oars in saltire sable, flagged gules, in base vert a salmon naiant proper; 3rd or, a dexter hand fessways coupled gules, holding a cross-crosslet fitcée azure; 4th azure, a tower embattled argent masoned sable.

Translation: Upper Left - a silver background with a red lion, unrestrained; Upper Right - a gold background with a black galley, red flag, sails furled and oars crossed, in a green sea with a salmon fish; Lower Left - a gold background with a red armored right hand sideways, cut off, gripping a small blue cross; Lower Right - a blue background with a silver embattled tower, black mortar joints.

Clan Badge: a branch of laurel and a branch of cypress in saltire, surmounted of a battleaxe in pale, all proper.

Plant Badge: Blaeberry (also Bramble)

Tartan: Maclaine hunting, Maclaine dress, Mull District.

Pipe Music: Lament for Maclaine of Lochbuie.

Progenitor: Gillean-na-Taughe (Gillean the Battleaxe).

Chief: Lorne Gillean Iain Maclaine, 26th Chief of the Clan Maclaine of Lochbuie and Feudal Baron of Moy.

Tanist: Angus Maclaine, "The Younger Lochbuie".