Rannoch & Highland Branch (Scotland)

Greetings from Scotland to Clan Donnachaidh members worldwide.

Dates for your diary, if visiting Scotland, are as follows:

     *5th July 2010 - Branch visit to Balhousie Castle, Museum of the Black Watch, the local        regiment  who are always in the front line of battle.

     *31st August - 3rd Sept. 2010 - Prestonpans Tapestry on display at Blair Castle

     *11th September 2010 Pitlochry Highland Games

     *10th October 2010 Annual Branch Lunch at Pitlochry Festival Theatre

     *12th November 2010 Quiz night.

Contact the Secretary or Treasurer for further details.

The three aims of the Rannoch & Highland Branch are to promote the History, Heritage and Sentiment of the Clan Donnachaidh., including supporting the Clan Centre at Bruar and in 2009 we gave £2,000 to assist with office requirements and with the refurbishment of the newly extended Clan Shop.     See below.

Our fund-raising events are well supported by the local population, many of whom are Donnachaidhs, even if they are not members of the Branch. To raise our Branch profile we continue to support Atholl Province curlers by giving an annual prize and this year we will also give some support to local youngsters who receive tuition at the local golf club. Three members of our committee visited a class at the local school and talked to them about the Clan’s history and the aims of the Society. 

Our Branch has joined a very ambitious project to make a tapestry commemorating the
Battle of Prestonpans and our panel is now completed.

Please click here to see and read about what we are doing ....   

For more information on the whole project you can to to http://www.prestonpanstapestry.org

Andrew Duncan with John Swinney and his wife. John is the local Member of the Scottish Parliament and Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth in the Scottish Government. His wife, Elizabeth Quigley, is a reporter with BBC Scotland.

  Our latest fund-raiser -- "Bash the Hagis"
  is very popular

The first Games of the season for the Rannoch & Highland Branch is the Atholl Gathering at the end of May. This is held in the grounds of Blair Castle and is opened by the entrance of the  Atholl Highlanders who then  fire a salute from their canon.

A popular fund-raiser is “Find the hidden Whisky” using a map of the Clan area. This year the whisky was won by Rev Ian Murray, minister of Blair Atholl and Struan and also Chaplain to the Atholl Highlanders.

Andrew Duncan, Chairman of Rannoch & Highland Branch, Rev Ian Murray and Duncan  Robertson, longest serving member of the Branch Committee.

Sylvia Robertson, secretary, encourages visitors to find the hidden whisky.

Click the tree below to read about the Robertson Oak and the
Society's involvement...