Meaning of Heraldic Symbols in Coats of Arms 

The crest (more properly the badge) of MacCulloch bears a hand folding a dart (essential a small spear with fletchings -feathers - to make it fly straight when thrown) and the Latin words, "Vi et Animo" (translates as, "By Strength And Courage.") The image illustrates the motto. By "shield" I presume you mean Coat of Arms (sometimes called a crest.). Despite what many places say to try and sell you something, no clan has a coat of arms. Those belong to individuals only, not to their heirs or their clans.

@@numptaru Yes, I am quite aware of all of this. No video in depth on all the details of the shield and anything else is what I was asking for. But thank you.

@@numptaru coat of arms would’ve been what the Herald wore. The shield or arms sometimes known as a coat of arms. But that’s a misnomer. The crest itself, the clan crest including the dart proper,, from everything I’ve learned can be represented by a dart or arrow, the more traditionally a dart was What a javelin we typically have been referred to as. Many people think it’s a dark as in the game we play nowadays but my understanding that is not the case. But from my research a javelin, a dart, and arrow or all appropriate representations.

based on OCR, might be a few errors - The following is an excerpt from More Irish Families by Edward MacLysaght from the name MacCULLACH, MacCullogh: MacCULLACH, MacCullough COLL While not in the list of the hundred most numerous surnames in Ire-land, MacCullagh, MacCullough and other spelling variants such as MacCollough combined constitute one of our most numerous names, with an estimated population in Ireland of nearly 5,000 persons. As regards location the same conclusion can be drawn from the birth registrations for all the years for which statistics are available, namely that 80 to 90 per cent of the name belong to Ulster, principally Antrim, Down and Tyrone. Petty's "census" reveals a similar position in 1659, when Mac-Cullough and variants was listed as among the principal Irish names in the baronies of Antrim, Belfast, Carrickfergus and Toome in Co. Antrim and Lower Iveagh in Co. Down. In the previous century the Annals of Loch Ce tell us that Seamus Mac Con Uladh was killed at Dunbo (near Coleraine) in 1532. This name is given by the learned editor in his index as MacCullagh. Treating of Mac Con Uladh (son of the hound of Ulster) Woulfe gives MacAnully, MacNully, MacAnaul, MacCullow etc., but not MacCullagh as a modern or early anglicized form. According to him the Irish form of MacCullagh is Mac Colla (sometimes Mac Collach) derived from Colla, a personal name in use in MacDonnell and MacSweeney families. Woulfe's opinion cannot be accepted here. There is no doubt that the Irish form of MacCullagh is either Mac Con Uladh or Mac Cu Uladh. The reason for the alternative forms is that in later times Cu Uladh was regarded as one word and so ell did not change in the genitive. From the later form came the pronunciation which gave the anglicization MacCullagh. Dr. Hayes-McCoy considered that the MacCollas were galloglass families. The most exhaustive source for sixteenth century hish surnames is the Fiants: therein we find MacAnully (Belfast); but MacColla, MacCullo(e) and MacCullowe were mainly Connacht, though occasionally Ulster. The Composition Book of Connacht (1585) records Rory M cCollo of Becklone, Co. Galway, and Rory MacHugh MacCullogh of Bollindrone, Co. Sligo, as men of sub-stance. As the large scale migration from north-west Ulster to north Connacht did not take place until the next century it would appear that there was an inde-pendent sept of MacCullough originating in north Connacht, though it must be observed that there is no mention of such in the Tribes and Customs of Hy Fiach-rach or in the Annals of Connacht, except for the 1532 death recorded in those of Loch Ce and noted above. The name MacCulloch is also that of an important Scottish family originally of Argyleshire and later of Galloway, whence came the Ulster Plantation under-taker who was the ancestor of some of the MacCulloughs of Ulster. The first of them settled in Co. Donegal. This name is traditionally derived from the Scots-Gaelic word culach, a boar, and in this connexion it is interesting to note that in Co. Sligo, within living memory, Boar and Bower were in use as synonyms of MacCullagh. The best known people of the name were Ulstermen: James MacCullagh (1809-1847), born at Strabane, an eminent mathematician and physicist; John Edward MacCullough (1837-1885), born at Coleraine, a leading tragedian in the U.S.A.; and Joseph Burnbridge Mac-Cullagh (1843-1896), born in Dublin, who has been called "the father of the interview." In addition to the MacCollas the Fiants have several references to the names O'Collo and O'Colle, located in much the same areas as the MacCollas; O'Colle appears also as well as Colle in the list of the Earl of Tyrone's kern in 1544. Colle or Coll without a prefix, however, is, at any rate in Munster and Leinster, a different name altogether, being of English or possibly Norman origin: it appears in the Ormond Deeds intermittently from 1360 onwards (occasionally with an 0 prefix even in the Ormond country). The first mention I have met of the Co. Limerick family of Coll is at Kilmallock in 1598: they are well known now on account of their intimate association with the late President Eamon de Valera. The name Coll is, however, chiefly found in Co. Donegal today and it is probable that there it is an abbreviated form of MacColla. (v. sub Coyle supra). In Belfast MacColl has been recorded as used synonymously with MacCaul.

Yes, thank you I am actually aware of the history and lineage of both branches of the MacCullochs. Though what I was actually referring to was more what you do here, the detailed breakdown of the Arms and a Armorial Achievement of the chief of the Clan MacCulloch of Myrton. Though seeing as the possibility of a connection between the Irish and Scottish names, both the Irish and Scottish arms and Armorial Achievements might work well together in a single video.

Thanks Dad

Are you aware that the English heraldic tradition uses Norman French to describe blazons? Escallop (e definitely pronounced) is the correct term for that particular charge, genius. Depending on where you live, the fully Anglicized "Scallop" may still be spelled in the older Escallop or Escalope form and while it's turned into just "scallop" in most cases, that's not even always the case and the E will be pronounced by some people. The language of Heraldry did NOT anglicize nearly to the degree that regular Norman french did as that language mixed with Old English to form the modern language we enjoy today. In Heraldry, it's absolutely the norm to pronounce the E. Maybe English isn't your strongest point, bud.