Cowal Highland Gathering Cowal Stone. There is a 5 kilometre fun run and a hill race from the stadium to the top of Tom Odhar and back again, and since 2007 there has been a Scottish Backhold wrestling competition. Cowal Highland Gathering The Cowal Highland Gathering (also known as the Cowal Games) is an annual Highland games held in the Scottish town of Dunoon, on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, over the final weekend in August. The first record of an organised Highland games in the town is in 1871, the same year as the Argyllshire Gathering in Oban started. In
2017 Scottish Rally Championship Beaton were declared champions in their Ford Fiesta R5. With only one event left to run the pair were uncatchable in the points table. For season 2017 there was seven events held predominantly on gravel surfaces. Due to calendar changes within the British Rally Championship, the "Scottish Rally", usually held in June was brought forward to May. June, meanwhile welcomed a new event to the calendar, the "Argyll Rally" which saw a return to the forests of Cowal after an absence of 14 years. Points are awarded to the highest placed registered drivers on each event as follows: 30, 28,