Clan Chattan Crest Keychain

Clan Chattan is a Highland Scottish clan.The clan is unique in highland clan history in that it was a community or confederation, of twelve separate Scottish clans, who each had their own clan chief recognized under Scottish law, but who were united under and bound to a superior chief of the confederation for mutual solidarity, sustenance and protection in the Middle Ages and early modern period in the Scottish Highlands. Clans that make up Clan Chattan are as follows Clan Davidson Clan Farquharson Clan MacBean Clan MacGillivray Clan MacIntyre of Badenoch Clan Mackintosh Clan MacLean of Dochgarroch (the Macleans of the North) Clan MacPhail Clan Macpherson Clan Macqueen Clan MacThomas Clan Shaw of Tordarroch