Clan MacCulloch

Clan MacCulloch
MottoVi et animo (Latin for 'By strength and courage')[1]
Profile
RegionLowlands
DistrictGalloway
Clan MacCulloch no longer has a chief, and is an armigerous clan
Historic seatMyreton Castle;Cardoness Castle.[2]
Last ChiefMcCulloch of Myreton.
Died1704
Clan branches
McCulloch of Myreton
McCulloch of Killasser
McCulloch of Ardwell
McCulloch of Cardoness
McCulloch of Torhouse
McCulloch of Barholm
McCulloch of Drummorrell
McCulloch of Inshanks and Mule
McCulloch of Nether Ardwall
Map of the Rhinns of Galloway
Chapel Rossan Bay looking across to Ardwell village, Wigtownshire.

The origins of Clan MacCulloch are unknown, but there is a consensus that the family was one of the most ancient families of Galloway, Scotland, and a leading medieval family in that region.[3][4] Despite the obscurity of the early history of the clan, the history and genealogies of the family are well documented in Walter Jameson McCulloch's History of the Galloway Families of McCulloch, which provides extensive footnotes for original Scottish charters, correspondence, and other primary source documentation.[5] The latter provides family history for the following lines: Myretoun, Ardwell, Killasser, Torhouse, Drummorrell, Inshanks and Mule, Torhousekie, Cardiness, Barholm, Kirkclaugh, Auchengool, and Ardwall (Nether Ardwall).

Clan MacCulloch is a Lowland Scottish clan. As it no longer has a clan chief, it is an armigerous clan.

  1. ^ Clan MacCulloch Profile scotclans.com. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Cardoness Castle". Historic Scotland. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  3. ^ Black, George Fraser (1946). The surnames of Scotland; their origin, meaning, and history. New York Public Library. p. 483.
  4. ^ Blaeu, Joan (1654). Blaeu Atlas of Scotland (in Latin and English). National Library of Scotland: National Library of Scotland. p. 50.
  5. ^ McCulloch, Walter Jameson (1964). History of the Galloway Families of McCulloch. Unpublished Manuscript.