Kirby Tartan

Blankets, clothing, ornaments and gifts in the Kirby tartan - each one made for you.

Part of Clan Kirby

About this tartan

Kirby is not a Highland or Lowland Scottish clan. It is primarily an Irish surname, an anglicization of the Gaelic Ó Ciarmhaic ('descendant of Ciarmhac'), a family of East Limerick who were chiefs of Eoghanacht Áine around Knockany until the Anglo-Norman invasion and whose name is still common in Limerick and across Munster; a separate, unrelated Kirby name is English, of Norse origin (from Old Norse 'kirkja' + 'býr,' 'church settlement').

Read the Clan Kirby story

Modern or Ancient?

Same pattern, different dyes. Modern uses deep, saturated colours; Ancient uses the softer tones associated with natural dyes.