Welcome to Clan MacFarlane Worldwide!
If you're like the rest of us you have no doubt found yourself pondering your heritage. Maybe your interest was nurtured as a child or maybe it was just discovered. Either way, we're glad your interest has led you here and we invite you to become part of our worldwide, yet tight, community. Our goals are to educate, share, and take pride in our heritage.
We are MacFarlanes of all spelling variations, McGaws, Spruells, Robbs, Millers, Websters, Weavers, Blacks and many others. Together we form a organization that's kept by the strongest of bonds... family. We answer to the call Loch Sloy, we carry the arms of our forefathers, we preserve the heritage that is so uniquely yours and ours.
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2017 Creag a’Phuirt, Almshouse Dig
Between April 11th and April 19th, 2017 CMW worked with Calluna Archaeology to investigate what is likely the Alms House built by James MacFarlane in the 1600's. This site was identified as "Site 28" during the 2016 Walkover survey of the Arrochar Parish
Abstract
An excavation was carried out on a site at Creag a’Phuirt on the west shore of Loch Lomond in 2017. It was thought that this might be an almshouse built by James Macfarlane opposite his house on Island I Vow between 1612 and 1625 to provide for travellers passing through the district. The building proved to be a small, well-built, slightly trapezoidal-shaped structure, with a slate roof, but no obvious entrance or fireplace. The floor consisted of re-deposited loch-side material with water-rolled stones and contained a sherd of late 16th/17th century window glass and a broken sherd of 17th century pottery. Considering its location and date, this structure may well have been the almshouse perhaps comprising two stories, with access from an outer stair. By the mid-19th century the walls had been robbed and the site left ruinous.
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Cambridge Scottish Festival Fri Jul 20 through Sat Jul 21 |
Glasgow Lands Scottish Festival Sat Jul 21 through Sat Jul 21 |
153rd Scottish Highland Gathering and Games Sat Sep 1 through Sun Sep 2 |
Longs Peak Scottish-Irish Highland Festival Fri Sep 7 through Sun Sep 9 |
Tulsa Scotsfest Sat Sep 15 through Sun Sep 16 |
18th Niagara Celtic Festival Sat Sep 15 through Sun Sep 16 |
Ligonier Highland games Sat Sep 22 through Sat Sep 22 |
St. Louis Scottish Games and Cultural Festival Sat Sep 29 through Sat Sep 29 |
Stone Mountain Highland games Sat Oct 20 through Sun Oct 21 |
57th Scottish Gathering and Highland Games, Salado, Texas Fri Nov 9 through |