Highland Games in Scotland

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Thistledown wrote:-

At the Newtonmore Games there's the Macpherson tent because that's where the locals welcome their own and visitors. At the Moy Game Fair there's the Clan Chattan tent just beside Moy Hall to provide hospitality to the neighbours (including Jock) and clansfolk alike.

This sums up the situation fairly accurately. At a regular annual Scottish Highland Games there are usually no clan tents or if there is one, only the local clan/family will be represented, for example I have co-hosted a Clan Cunningham tent at Cumnock Games in Ayrshire two or three times.
The only games where I have seen a Clan Village was Aboyne. I went there in 2011 where I was sharing a tent with the Council of Scottish Armigerous Clans and Families. We had about a dozen armigerous families represented and there were at least ten individual clans who had their own separate tents.
I suspect there will be a few events in 2014 which will include a clan village. Thinking back to the last Homecoming Year I hosted a Clan Cunningham tent in the Clan Village at the Muster of the Clans at Bowhill Selkirk in September 2009 where many lowland families were represented including several Clan Chiefs and Heads of Family.