Town Tartans

**Andrew Green** · 4th August 06, 10:42 AM

Matt, thanks for the email contact. Perhaps that might yield some info. March '06... yeah, talk about new huh! Still, I find it quite intriguing. I cannot remembernow if Paisley Hospital was in Greenock, or not. I have to double check with my parents. I could swear that I was born in Paisley Hospital, which means it's in Greenock, but then transferred to Glasgow, now that I think of it (as the hospital there was better equipped to handle premature births)...it's been a while since I have thought about to the few places I had been jumped to after birth. Ha ha ha....typically not something I tend to think about. I know the town of my birth (Greenock), and where we had lived (Dunoon), which most people find more than sufficient.
I wonder if there is a tartan for Dunoon...

**Monkey@Arms** · 4th August 06, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by Andrew Green

I know the town of my birth (Greenock), and where we had lived (Dunoon), which most people find more than sufficient.
I wonder if there is a tartan for Dunoon...

Huh, your first post and the subsequent links had me wondering the same thing.

Don't know much about tartan's, but the closest I could find was the Argyll district tartan which apparently goes by many names:

Argyll
ITI No. 002079
MacCorquodale
ITI No. 003345
Campbell of Cawdor
ITI No: 000002

If I'm mistaken about these all being the same pattern, would appreciate someone giving me a heads-up. Thanks.

Best regards,

Jake

**Andrew Green** · 4th August 06, 11:42 AM

Yeah, even if I could dig up an appropriate district tartan for the area, that would be cool as well (I like variety, and I don't want to wear a different clan's tartan...except maybe in the interest of re-enactment). In the same vein, I don't want to wear the tartan of a district that I have no connection with.

**Andrew Green** · 4th August 06, 11:50 AM

So, with a tidbit of searching, it appears that Dunoon is in the Argyll district. We moved while I was still young enough to not care about such things as addresses and such. Someone correct this if I am wrong please. It seems that Greenock is in the Inverclyde District, and the district appears to have no tartan of its own, which would leave me to track down (hopefully) someone who is making the Greenock tartan.

**Monkey@Arms** · 4th August 06, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by Andrew Green

So, with a tidbit of searching, it appears that Dunoon is in the Argyll district. We moved while I was still young enough to not care about such things as addresses and such. Someone correct this if I am wrong please. It seems that Greenock is in the Inverclyde District, and the district appears to have no tartan of its own, which would leave me to track down (hopefully) someone who is making the Greenock tartan.

Dunoon is definitely in Argyllshire, both Greenock and Dunoon might also be considered Strathclyde as well (at least they are in the jurisdiction of the Strathclyde Police).

Best regards,

Jake

**starbkjrus** · 4th August 06, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by Andrew Green

So, with a tidbit of searching, it appears that Dunoon is in the Argyll district. We moved while I was still young enough to not care about such things as addresses and such. Someone correct this if I am wrong please. It seems that Greenock is in the Inverclyde District, and the district appears to have no tartan of its own, which would leave me to track down (hopefully) someone who is making the Greenock tartan.

Andrew,

Actually, according to The Compendium of District Tartans by Matt Newsome and James Bullman, (Scotpress 2004, -05)((Which I highly recommend as a reference tool)) the Ayrshire District Tartan designed in 1988 is intended for those with connections to the districts of Kyle, Cunningham and Inverclyde.

It's also available through the Scottish Tartans Museum and in my opinion is a REALLY nice looking tartan.

You can see it at www.district-tartans.com

**Andrew Green** · 4th August 06, 12:55 PM

Yes, I agree that the Ayrshire tartan is rather nice, and also from some readings the Muir clan (one that has caused a lot of confusion on my part... one family name is Moir, which is listed as both a sept of Gordon, and as a variant of Muir...which is also listed as a sept of Gordon, and some consider it its own clan... and they also have a Chief now, which they didn't in the past...which was part of how they got absorbed into larger clans...see where the confusion comes from?) was located in that area as well, so it wouldn't be completely inappropriate, save for the spelling of Moir was more common in the Aberdeen area... However, Google Earth lists Greenock as Renfrewshire, and other maps list it as Inverclyde.... any thoughts? Yikes!