Clan Chattan Arms

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My apologies for the delay in posting this information, but I needed to await 'official' confirmation finally given this month (February 2023).

The Clan Chattan Association was awarded arms by the Lord Lyon in August 2022.


The charges in the arms give primary place to the Northern and Southern segments of the Confederacy (the cat faces) and the common ancestry of the two (the lymphad). The lymphad is displayed without preference to either by way of its tincture, the furling of its sails, and the shipping of its oars.

None of the charges specific to any of the chiefs of the specific clans were included: lions, caltrops, stags, red hands, etc.), and for the crest the Lord Lyon chose to display the preferred image of the Association over the past one hundred years (resting, observant, contemplative) rather than the sometimes aggressive or protective posture in the arms of several of its chiefs. He also excluded the crests of some of the chiefs bearing the lion or the stag.



Wreathing is in both whortleberry and boxwood, again symbolic of the two primary segments of the clan.

The slughorn of the constituent clan chiefs have often (but not always) been based on 'Touch Not the Cat Bot a Glove'. Lord Lyon chose 'Comhla nas Laidire', roughly translated as 'Better' or 'Stronger' Together.