Clan Leckie

The lands of Leckie were English Crown property from 1296 until the reign of Robert the Bruce, who granted in 1328 the west half of Leckie nearest Boquhan (near Kippen), to Malcolm, fifth Earl (Mormaer) of Lennox (1255–1333), (Mormaer – the Celtic equivalent of an Earl), in to compensate for the lordship of plot of land, in Dumbartonshire,…

The placename Leckie (Leky, Lekke, Lekky, are old forms of the name) The first known owner of Leckie is said to have been a certain Malise de Leckie during the invasion of Edward I of England. Sir Herbert Maxwell, in his “Scottish Land Names”, (p152) says: “Leachan, a derivation of leac, a flagstone, is occasionally…