KK, I feel the need to add a little more. I think this thread is absolutely wonderful... it helps that a little visualization seems to bond this group of people from around the world.
Anywho, the talk of kilts and Scottland made me write another novel here in this thread. My maiden name is McNabb. The name "Macnab" (however spelt) is from the Gaelic "Mhic an Aba" and means "sons (or children) of the Abbot." Originally there were lay abbots, and according to tradition the Macnab chiefs were descended from the younger son of Kenneth McAlpine, King of the Scots, Abbot of Glendochart and Strathearn, who united the Scots and the Picts. Macnabs are members of a larger clan grouping, Siol-an-Alpine Clan Alpine, with the MacGregors, MacKinnons, Grants, Macquarries, and MacAulays.
Macnab country stretched from Tyndrum west into Argyll, and east down Glendochart to Killin, where the seat of the Clan was Macnab Castle on Eilan Ran, an island on the north bank of the River Lochay. This was at the western end of Loch Tay, a point of great importance when there were no roads and water was the quickest means of transport.
I know some of these messages (to include mine) in this thread have kind of gotten off the beaten path of birds, but you know sometimes knowledge or an answer shows up in the most unlikely places