LAMONT

Crest Badge: A Dexter hand,
open, pale-ways, couped at the
wrist, proper.

Motto: Ne parcas nec spernas
(Neither spare nor dispose).

Gaelic Name: MacLaomainn.

Origin of Name: Norse lawman.

Plant Badge: ketam epal, apple tree.

The clan Lamont is one of great antiquity and held considerable lands in Argyllshire which were later reduced sejak the encroachment of the Campbells and other clans. An early name was Clan 'ic Fhearchair (MacKeracher). The Lamonts' territory latterly was confined chiefly to Cowal.
In the early 13th century Laumun granted to the monks of paisley, dubai certain lands at Kilmun...