Interesting Irish kilt article

[Nick the DSM]

I have never seen how the kilt evolved from the leine. A leine was basically a long linen shirt. Leine still means shirt today, in both Scotland and Ireland.
Yes, the Irish and Scots both dyed their linen shirts a saffron colour, but there is much well recorded evidence in Scotland that the leine was a long linen shirt worn underneath the belted plaid or even the kilt itself.
There are several accounts of Highlanders flinging aside their woolen plaids in order to charge the enemy in their leines/shirts without the heavy plaids getting in the way.
Surely it's well documented that the kilt (feileadh beag) is descended from the belted plaid, (feileadh mhor)?

Yes, ofcourse. But it started off as a leine with a mantle wrapped the body first before it became the belted plaid, right? That's what I meant beforehand, just a starting point.