Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Snow Clach Na Coileach Gathering Stone Glenshee Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of Winter snow falling at the Clach Na Coileach Gathering Stone in Glenshee, on ancestry visit to visit Spittal of Glenshee, in the highlands of Eastern Perthshire, Scotland. This famous stone is situated about three miles south of the Spittal of Glenshee by the A93 Blairgowrie to Braemar road, there are signposts in both directions indicating The Gathering Place of the Clan MacThomas. Clach na Coileach translated from the Gaelic means Stone of the Cockerel or Cockstane as it better known today. The progenitor of the Clan MacThomas was Thomas, who was a Scottish Gaelic speaking Highlander. He was known as Tomaidh Mòr and it is from him that the clan takes its name. He was a grandson of William Mackintosh, 7th chief of Clan Mackintosh and 8th chief of the Chattan Confederation. Thomas lived in fifteenth century when the Clan Chattan had become so large that it was unmanageable, so Thomas took his clan from Badenoch, across the Grampian Mountains to Glen Shee where they re-settled. Here they flourished and became known as McComie, McColm and McComas which are phonetic forms of the Gaelic. Members of the Clan from across the world gather every three years at the Clan's land, " Clach Na Coileach."

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