| Clan MacBean |
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Crest: Wildcat holding a shield known as a Targe |
| Motto | Touch Not A Catt Bot A Targe |
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| War cry | Kinchyle |
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| Region | Highland |
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| District | Inverness |
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| Plant badge | Boxwood or red whortleberry |
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| Animal | Scottish Wildcat |
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| Richard McBain of McBain |
| 23rd Chief of the Clan MacBean |
| Historic seat | Kinchyle in the parish of Dores, Inverness-shire. Faillie, in Strathnairn, and Tomatin, in Strathdearn. |
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| Septs of Clan MacBean |
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McBain, Bean, MacBean, McBean, McBeath, MacBeth, Macilvain, MacVean, Bain, (spellings listed in the Clan Chattan Association's literature, but clearly other variant spellings exist) |
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Principal branches of the family were MacBean of Kinchyle, MacBean of Faillie, MacBean of Tomatin, MacBean of Drummond, the 'Forbes' Macbeans a cadet of the chiefly line of Kinchyle who were descended from Rev. Alexander MacBean of Inverness |
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Clan MacBean (or Clan MacBain), is a highland Scottish clan and is a member and historic sept of Clan Chattan.