The Gathering
March of the Clans Photo Library
The highlight of Homecoming Scotland 2009 was the "Gathering" and the march of the clans up Edinburgh's historic Royal Mile from the Palace of Holyroodhouse, beside Salisbury Crags, to the castle. There is a full illustrated description of the march and the events throughout the day of 25 July 2009 in Holyrood Park in Scottie's Diary - The Gathering.Around 8,000 marchers from over 125 clans, interspersed by seven pipe bands (and the Lonach Highlanders too) walked the one mile and 107 yards - all of it up-hill, climbing 560 feet from start to finish.
My original intention had been to get at least one photo of every clan participating so that I could create a complete photo library. But the initial muster at the gates of Holyrood was a bit of a melee and, to my surprise, the gates opened and the initial clans began marching away from me, across the palace forecourt! So I missed the Agnews to Cunninghams... However, Hugh Preacher kindly sent me some of his graphics of the clans at the head of the march (taken further up the Royal Mile) and so, as a result, there are pages for the Borthwick, Bruce, Buchanan, Cameron, Campbell and Cunningham clans. I did pretty well after the initial confusion, catching well over 100 clans from Currie to Urquhart, in some cases with more than one picture. I could only photograph a selection of clans after my own clan, the Scotts, however - understandably I wanted to catch up with them to join them on the march.
Thumbnails covering the Borthwick to the Graham clans can be seen below (in alphabetical order). There are further index to the 180 individual graphics pages as follows:
Clan Borthwick to Clan Kincaid
Clan Kerr to Clan MacIntyre
Clan MacIntyre to Clan MacPherson
Clan MacPherson to Clan Napier
Clan Napier to Clan UrquhartYou can use the thumbnails to jump to a particular clan or take the "grand tour" of them all as each page is linked to the next.
Feel free to download and use any of these graphics for any non-commercial purpose (right mouse click and "save image as" or "save picture as"). If you need a larger version or with greater pixels per inch, drop an email to Scottie@RampantScotland.com. If you use any of the graphics an acknowledgement of Rampant Scotland as the source would be helpful.
 Atholl Highlanders |  Clan Alba |  Clan Borthwick |
 Clan Bruce |  Clan Bruce and Clan Buchanan |  Clan Cameron and Clan Campbell |
 Clan Campbell |  Clan Cunningham |  Clan Cunningham |
 General View at Start |  General View at Start |  Currie / Davidson |
 Davidson |  Clans Dewar, Doig |  Clan Donald |
 Clan Donald |  Clan Donald |  Clan Donnachaidh |
 Clan Donnachaidh |  Clan Douglas |  Clans Drummond, Dunbar |
 Clan Dunbar |  Clan Durie |  Clan Elliot |
 Clan Elliot |  Clan Farquharson |  Clan Fergusson |
 Clan Fergusson |  Clan Forbes |  Clan Forbes |
 Clan Fraser |  Fraser of Lovat |  Fraser of Lovat |
 Clan Gordon |  Clan Gordon |  Clan Gordon |
 Clans Gordon, Graham |  Clan Graham |  Clan Graham |
You can now go to the Second Page of Thumbnails in this series of pictures from The Gathering.
Or go to another page of thumbnails:
Clan Grant to Clan Kincaid
Clan Kerr to Clan MacIntyre
Clan MacIntyre to Clan MacPherson
Clan MacPherson to Clan Napier
Clan Napier to Clan Urquhart
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