Gaelic Name: MacBheathain

Crest: A grey demi-cat-a-mountain salient, on his sinister foreleg a Highland targe Gules

Motto: Touch Not A Catt Bot A Targe

Origin of Name: Son of Beatham

Badge: Red whortleberry or Boxwood

Lands: Dores, Inverness-shire

Clan Chief: James McBain of McBain

Associated Names The following names are considered septs of Clan MacBain: Bain, Bean, MacBean, MacBeth, Macilvain, MacVean, McBean, and McBeath The surname MacBain is a sept of Clan Mackay
MacBain Clan History

There are several possible Gaelic origins for this name but the most likely is bheathain [...]

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