1737 Household Valuation

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Could meeder be madder? I've seen some spellings for madder that are way off, mayder, maider. Kinda wide guess, but since it's cloth that it's referring to, then it could possibly be the colour.

Since madder is/was a common dye derived from the madder plant which grows throughout most of Europe. I tend to agree that it's probably referring to the colour RED, which would make sense if the plaid was a predominately red tartan. The coats of the British army were died with madder until sometime after the middle of the 19th century when madder red was synthesized in Germany. The colour is also known as madder rose (or pink) and is possibly the origin of the "pink" riding coats worn in the hunting field, although legend has it that these coats are called "pinks" after a Mr. Pink, the tailor who first produced them.