from the Balnald Burn which over the years has been extended to supply the whole glen including Straloch, Enochdhu, Kirkmichael, Ballintuim and Bridge of Cally villages. The Games Strathardle Highland Gathering & Agricultural Show is held annually in Kirkmichael on the fourth Saturday of August. The Gathering is currently held in Bannerfield with the Agricultural Show in the adjacent field. The first Gathering was held on 4 August 1871, and it has been held annually ever since, apart from the inter-war years of 1914-18 and 1940–45 and due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020-21. Locations included Croft of Dounie, Aldchlappie and Dalnagairn before settling on the current Bannerfield location in the late 1940s. The founders of the original games were Alexander Petrie of Strathgarry, Killiecrankie (originally of Ballinloan, Kirkmichael), "Mr Michie" of Cluneskea, Enochdhu, "Mr James Stewart" and "Mr James Dow". It is recorded that they approached James Small of Dirnanean with a proposal to hold an annual gathering, a proposal to which Small gave his "warm approval". Petrie himself subsequently competed in the games of his own founding, principally via "titling the ring" on horseback. The agricultural show started in the late 1950s and now attracts a large entry of quality livestock from a restricted local area. For over a century, three generations of the Evans family from Glasgow attended the Gathering with their travelling funfair and sideshows and "Evans shows", as they were known, were an integral part of the Games and village life. In the 1950s and 1960s the fair stayed for two weeks and attracted large crowds with bingo, slot machines and shooting the main attractions. The Evans made their last visit in 2009. Sport The local football team, Strathardle United, disbanded with the advent of World War Two but restarted in the 1950s as a boys team with matches played in Bannerfield, with the landowners at the time permitting the public to use it as a park. A sports committee rented a part of Bannerfield from the 1930s to the 1960s for a challenging putting green and a tennis court. A scout hut was later built on the site of the court. In 1906, a nine-hole golf course, designed by the Carnoustie professional, opened on Whitefield Moor at the top of Dalnagairn Farm. It closed in 1914 with the start of World War One and never re-opened. The Glen Kirkmichael is the largest village in