Tour Scotland Video Photographs Scottish Highland Games Lochearnhead

Tour Scotland video of photographs of the Scottish Highland Games in Lochearnhead, Scotland. This Gathering is held beside Loch Earn in the lands of Clan MacGregor, MacLaren, MacNab, and Stewart of Strathearn, with Pipers, Highland Dancing, Tossing the Caber and and all the activities you would expect to see at a traditional highland games. Loch Earn was on the frontier between Pictland and Dalriada, the kingdom of the incoming Scots from Ireland, Dundurn at the east end of the loch being a Pictish frontier fort. This lends weight to the argument that the name Earn therefore comes from Eireann, in other words, the loch of the Irish. The siege, by the Scots, of the Pictish Fort of Dundurn in 683 AD is mentioned in the Annals of Ulster. Giric, King of Picts and Scots, is said to have been killed at Dundurn in 889, and is buried on the Island of Iona.

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