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Scottish Tattoo Designs >> MacEwen

MacEwen Clan Tattoos -  There are numerous spelling of this name, which is rendered in Gaelic as 'Macoghainn'. The sons of Ewen hold that they descend from Ewen of Otter on the shores of Loch Fyne in Argyll. Malcolm MacEwen witnessed a charter by the Earl of Atholl to the church of St.Andrew around 1174.

Sween is the last chief on record, and thereafter they appear only as dependents of the Campbells or as a broken (clanless) men. In 1598 two hundred Macewens were described as broken Highland men heavily armed and living by robbery. They are listed in an Act of Parliament in1602, along with other broken clans as subjects of the Earl of Argyll who was made answerable for their good behaviour. Some of this name seem to have become poets or bards, and found patrons among the Campbells and the Macdougalls. Neil Macewen composed a poem on the death of Campbell of Glenorchy in 1630. The macewens seem to have supported the Jacobite cause, but only as individuals, as they were lacking a chief to call them out as a clan. Sir Alexander Macewen was lately provost of Inverness.

Clan MacEwen Motto: Reviresco
From Latin: I flourish again

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