Clans

The Clan Donnachaidh Society was inaugurated at a dinner in Edinburgh in 1823.

The last formal dinner of this earliest incarnation of the Society seems to have been held in 1842. The outstanding funds were turned into a trust and used to pay the schoolmaster of Struan. Today, the trustees, direct descendants of the cadet families of Kindrochit and Invervack who were instrumental in founding the Society, still support educational endeavours in Struan, across Perthshire, and across the globe.

In June 1823, Struan called a meeting of ‘Clan Robertson in Athole’ at which he suggested ‘that it would be a most desirable event to form an association with the Clan Stewart within the bounds of Athole, as in ancient times, to promote and cement a generous, manly, and Brotherly friendship between the two Clans, such as subsisted between their ancestors, also to revive and cherish a proper Highland spirit and feeling among the members of the two Clans, and give encouragement to every species of industry, for which this part of the Country is well adapted, and especially the manufacture at home and the general adoption of those fabrics which have ever been peculiar to the Highlands, namely Tartans, Plaids, and Bonnets.’