Clodagh/Cork
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern WGKGGKWKWKGWW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=689
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1970 — Clodagh/Cork (register-of-tartans, record)
Said to have been based on a sample found in the Bog of Allen in Southern Ireland (100 miles away from Clodagh). Colour variation of Royal Stewart. There is also an entry (#1796, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) of virtually the same tartan labelled Bowling. The original note for Clodagh said 'In Pendleton Book of Irish tartans this is labelled as 'Dowling'' . But no 'Irish Tartans' book has ever been found at Pendleton and the book referred to was doubtless 'Clans Originaux' which we now know does not contain a Clodagh/Bowling/Dowling or indeed any other of the claimed Irish tartans. Specimen of Clodagh was presented to the Scottish Tartans Society by Hugh MacPherson (Edinburgh) in July 1980 (woven by D.C. Dalgliesh of Selkirkin 1970 according the J Dalgety papers). The Clodagh could well be what a Royal Stewart/Victoria tartan looks like after being buried in a bog for over a century. A simple and logical explanation may well be that the 'Clodagh' bog tartan was discovered by someone called 'Dowling' whose name then became associated with it. In May 2004, Phil Smith found the following notes of Bill Johnson's. 'Clodagh, Dowling, Fitzpatrick, from a tracing of swatch in Pendleton's 'Irish Tartans' 1990, Kennedy, Forde and Kiernan.' Not known if the book was dated 1990 or the tracings were made in 1990. Pendleton have no knowledge of any such book. - 1970 — Clodagh (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Said to have been based on a sample allegedly found in the Bog of Allen in Southern Ireland - 100 miles away from Clodagh. Colour variation of Royal Stewart. There is also an entry (#1796) of virtually the same tartan labelled Bowling' The original note for Clodagh said "In Pendleton Book of Irish tartans this is labelled as 'Dowling'" . But no 'Irish Tartans' book has ever been found at Pendleton and the book referred to was doubtless 'Clans Originaux' which we now know does not contain a Clodagh/Bowling/Dowling or indeed any other of the claimed Irish tartans. Speciman of Clodagh was presented to the STS by Hugh MacPherson (Edinburgh) in July 1980 (woven by D C Dalgliesh of Selkirkin 1970 according the J Dalgety papers). The Clodagh could well be what a Royal Stewart/Victoria tartan looks like after being buried in a bog for over a century. A simple and logical explanation may well be that the 'Clodagh' bog tartan was discovered by someone called 'Dowling' whose name then became associated with it. In May 2004, Phil Smith found the following notes of Bill Johnson's. " . . .Clodagh, Dowling, Fitzpatrick . . .from a tracing of swatch in Pendleton's 'Irish Tartans' 1990 . . .Kennedy, Forde and Kiernan." Pendleton have no knowledge of any such book. Phil Dmith said in 2013: "In 1989 Bill made a special visit to Pendleton Mills. He SAW the book 'Irish Tartans' at that time and traced a number of patterns from it. I believed Bill and I saw the tracings."
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 1970 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 689
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1795
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1795
Thread count
W/8 DY8 K6 DY18 G26 K6 W6 K6 W6 K18 Y8 LB40 W/6
One full sett is 310 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
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310
312
416
206
256
226
222
312
335
208
396
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s13/w4dy4k3dy9g13k3w3k3w3k9y4lb20w3~x2/