Tapadh leat, A Theŕrlaich.

I had read that on the Clan Donald heritage site before. Luckily, we have a strong oral and written family tradition. My family is certainly clanranald, there is no doubt about that. I know it and all of our distant cousins know it as we have passed it down through the generations. We typically wear the most common MacDonald of Clanranald tartan but this is probably largely a function of what you see in tartan books etc... I've never run across the clanranald tartan that my Chief wears in any tartan guide. Everything mass marketed to clanranald uses the more common tartan of which my tank was constructed.

The chiefs got me thinking. Lord MacDonald doesn't wear Clan Donald, but rather wears Lord of the Isles, Clanranald doesn't wear clanranald modern but both of them wear appropriate, though far less common MacDonald tartans so it certainly opens up the question.

I look forward to your additional research...