Quote Originally Posted by Farlander View Post
Thanks Matt and Todd for a wonderful article that is both informative and scholarly!

From the article:

Moreover, the history books tell us that some significant portion of these settlers were from the Highlands including 5 highland nobles, namely -- the Duke of Lennox, his brother Lord D'Aubigny, the Earl of Abercorn, the Lord of Burley and Lord Ochiltree.

So, my question is, along with the large Highland immigration to Northern Ireland, is there any evidence of the Highland dress (namely the kilt) being brought with them? It would seem that the answer is NO, which seems a bit peculiar to me. Could it be that although the kilt existed at this time, it was not actually all that popular, or was it more of a desire to blend in and adopt the dress of the locals?
From a non historians angle, mine, it is well known that the kilt is Highland attire and it is only very recently that the lowland Scots have taken to the kilt. It gives us Highlanders a certain amount of amusement to hear lowland Scots pontificating about the kilt, when for centuries they poured nothing but scorn on it.

Which brings me to another point, these incomers from Scotland that came to Ireland all those centuries ago, were they from the lowlands?I am not at all sure that the five Nobles mentioned above could be described as genuine highlanders. If so, the question is answered, they would not have had(unlikely anyway) the kilt for the native Irish to copy.