This is a place for the clans to show off their colours, history and hospitality. A place for you to find out if great uncle McAncient was from a Scottish or Irish clan, or perhaps a sept (under the protection) of a larger clan. Don't worry, the clans will bend over backwards to see how you, too, can be Scottish: as long as you can spend some time minding the tent at future Games!
An historic view
The Gaelic word, clann, means children and describes a group of Scottish
families with the same - or similar - name over time, they wore the same plaid
and lived in the same area. Each clan had a chief who ruled the families and
looked after their needs. The clansmen reciprocated by working and fighting for
the chief.
Please drop by the clan area and let one of the many able historians make you
Scottish - if only for a day!
The clan area is also host to other associations related the the Celtic
community.
The Games are a great way of communicating with the public and other clan members:
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Educate the public about your Clan’s history and present day activities.
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Participate in the Parade of the Clans - Get everyone in your Clan involved with Banners, Claymores, Flags etc. Make your presence known
Clan Buchanan
The Buchanan Society is the oldest
Scottish Clan Society in the world. It was formed in Glasgow, Scotland
on 5th March 1725. Now known
as Clan Buchanan Society International (CBSI) the name signifies the
international scope of this Highland family.
Our immediate progenitor, Anselan O’Kyan, son of the King of Ulster, arrived in Scotland in 1016. In Ireland, the Danes had been an unwelcome occupying force for some decades. Upon the Danish King’s birthday, his forces in Ireland were directed to hold a feast in his honor. The Irish people were directed to provide the food, drink and a thousand of their pretty, virgin, women for the Danes’ entertainment. Once the Danes were well inebriated, the Irish instead sent in a thousand of their armed young men they had dressed as women. A massacre of the Danes followed. Young Anselan fled to Argyll and eventually acquired lands in the Lennox area either by marriage or as a reward for services rendered to King Malcolm II of Scotland, 1005 – 1034.
Buchanan lands are located on the east side of Loch Lomond, just north of present day Glasgow. Over the years, the clan changed its name to that of the land. Translated, the name Buchanan means “the Canon’s seat” presumably in relation to a church that had been founded there as far back as 650 AD. Even before this, the ancient Celtic people viewed this area as a holy place.
The clan produced a great many of the intellectuals of the highlands to include George Buchanan, the famous Latin Scholar, reformer and tutor to Mary Queen of Scots and her son, King James VI of Scotland. The Buchanans supported King Robert the Bruce in Scotland’s war of independence.
The Buchanan’s fly a yellow flag with a black rampant lion. The lion has a splash of tears. The right to incorporate the lion was due to the marriage of Walter, the third son of the twelfth Laird, John Buchanan to the Royal Lady Isobel Stewart in the 1400s. Upon the death of the 23rd and last Chief, the Clan took the Chief’s flag and splashed it with tears to denote that we had lost our Chief and our lands.
Throughout this long number of years the Members of the Buchanan Clan, together with its Septs, have given honour to their Clan and have served their country as well as the countries of their adoption throughout the world.
The motto of the Clan is “Clarior Hinc Honos” - “Henceforth forward the honor shall grow ever brighter”
That of the Society “Audaces Juvo” - “I Help the Brave.”
The Clan war cry is “Clar Innes.”
- Clan Buchanan
- Clan Campbell
- Clan Cian
- Clan Colquhoun
- Clan Cunningham
- Clan Donald
- Clan Donnachaidh
- Clan Douglas
- Clan Fraser
- Clan Gordon
- Clan Grant
- Clan Gregor
- Clan Gunn
- Clan Hall
- Clan Hamilton
- Clan Johnston
- Clan MacAlister
- Clan MacFarlane
- Clan MacFie
- Clan MacKay
- Clan MacKinnon
- Clan MacLachlan
- Clan MacLean
- Clan MacLeod
- Clan MacNicol
- Clan MacPherson
- Clan MacVicar
- Clan Matheson
- Clan O'Brien
- Clan Ramsay
- Clan Shaw
- Caledonian Club of SF
- Dunsmuir Games
- East Bay Scots
- Glen of Imaal Terriers
- Maine Folds Cattery
- NCIWC
- PBFSCO
- SAMS
- Celtic silk painting
- Spinning
- Weaving
- Sheep shearing