Macan of Lurgyvallan
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern KRGRGKWKGKBBBKGKWKGRGRGR.
Part of the MacAn of Lurgyvallan tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 24 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2276
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1831 — Macan of Lurgyvallan (register-of-tartans, record)
The portrait of 'Captain Macan of Lurgyvallan painted and presented to him by his sincere friend William MacKenzie, 24th Oct 1831' was recently sold at auction in London. The date of 'recently' is not recorded but the watercolour measured 10 by 7 inches. It shows the subject wearing a chief's 3 eagle feathers. No such clan, tartan or chief ever existed but the tartan shows a relationship to MacLean of Duart. Lurgvallan is in the southern part of County Armagh, Ireland. - 1831? — MacAn of Lurgyvallan (Portrait) (tartans-authority, record)
The portrait of 'Captain Macan of Lurgyvallan painted and presented to him by his sincere friend William MacKenzie, 24th Oct. 1831' was recently sold at auction in London. The date of "recently" is not recorded but the watercolour measured 10 by 7 inches.It shows the subject wearing a chief's 3 eagle feathers. No such clan, tartan or chief ever existed but the tartan shows a relationship to MacLean of Duart. Editorial note: it is difficult to understand how such a complex sett could be read from A 10 x 7 watercolour !! The only documented reference to a Lurgvallan states that it is in the southern part of County Armagh, Ireland.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 1831 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2276
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1155
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1155
Thread count
R/64 G4 R4 G4 R4 G16 K4 LB4 K4 Y4 K4 T24 DB16 T24 K4 Y4 K4 LB4 K4 G16 R48 G4 R4 K/4
One full sett is 484 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | oklch(80.8% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s24/r16g1r1g1r1g4k1lb1k1y1k1t6db4t6k1y1k1lb1k1g4r12g1r1k1x4lb3200000-t2503227/