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1st November 08, 11:01 AM
#10
 Originally Posted by CPOBull@Comcast.net
slainte
It has come to my attention, principally through reading and very informal research that the practice of kirkin' the tartan was likewise a practice among the Highlanders and the Irish Catholic who had intermarried and hid oput in the Highlands, being principally Jacobites, all. ...
What is your source for this?
As far as anyone has been able to discover heretofore based on reliable information, kirkin of the tartan is an American invention of some 60 odd years ago that has not been done in Scotland.
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