Ross Conner, Cameron May and Ruiraidh Brown at the 2024 Lochnell Championship (image courtesy Piping Press).
The prestigious Lochnell Championship, now in its fourth year, was again held in the chapel of Lochnell Castle by kind permission of the Earl of Dundonald. The Championship brought together seven of Scotland’s finest Intermediate players; the winners were:
Piobaireachd
1 Ruiraidh Brown, £120, Red Speckled Bull
2 Cameron May, £80, Lament for the Children
3 Brodie Watson-Massey, £60, Lachlan MacNeill Campbell of Kintarbert’s Fancy
4 Ross Conner, £40, Old Men of the Shells
MSR
1 Ross Conner, £120, South Hall, Cat Lodge, Drumlithie
2 Kyle Cameron, £80, Abercairney Highlanders, P/M Hector Maclean, Alick C MacGregor
3 Cameron May, £60, Duke of Roxburgh’s Farewell to the Blackmount Forest, Inveraray Castle, Mrs MacPherson of Inveran
4 Brodie Watson-Massey, £40, Leaving Lunga, Ewe wi’ the Crookit Horn, Stornoway Castle