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Macnish, also recorded as MacNeish, MacNish or MacNeice, is a small Highland kindred once settled around Loch Earn in Perthshire. The MacNabs broke its power at the Battle of Glen Boultachan about 1522, and the remnant of the clan was killed on its island stronghold in Loch Earn in the winter of 1612. No chief is listed by the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs. The Clan Gregor Society lists MacNeish and Neish among the surnames eligible for its membership, while Clan MacInnes says the names share a Gaelic root but that a connection between the families has not been established.

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No. The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs lists no Macnish chief. Clan books commonly treat MacNeish as a sept name, most often of Clan Gregor, but that link is not settled.
Sources disagree. The Clan Gregor Society lists MacNeish and Neish among the surnames eligible for its membership. Clan MacInnes says the names come from the same Gaelic root, MacAonghais, but that a physical connection with Clan MacInnes has not been established.
The MacNabs defeated them at the Battle of Glen Boultachan about 1522, and in the winter of 1612 killed nearly all of those left on their island in Loch Earn.
Around Loch Earn in Perthshire; their stronghold was an island in the loch.
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