Kilmory Camanachd
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Kilmory Camanachd is a shinty
club from Lochgilphead
, Argyll
, Scotland
. The club was founded in 1977 in its present form. The club plays in South Division One and has a reserve side in the Bullough cup. The club is associated with Dunadd ladies team.
as Lochfyneside and twice reached but lost in the Camanachd Cup Finals of 1949 and 1953. However, Furnace had gone into abeyance many years before the resurrection of the name. http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/shinty-history-in-the-making-1.185268
The use of the name Furnace ceased in the mid 1990s, the last Kilmory reserve team playing as Kilmory. The club's second team restarted in 2008 and will compete in the Bullough Cup.
in a playoff for promotion to the National League. The club struggled in the 2011 season, avoiding relegation by beating Aberdour in the penultimate game of the season. This was a disappointing year after a successful 2010 that saw them reach third in the league.
Camanachd, which was one of the original teams to start playing Women's Shinty
. It was a club which was a dominant force in the early years of the game before Glengarry and Glasgow Mid-Argyll rose to prominence.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/ross-hits-rivals-for-six-as-kingussie-1.270033
Shinty
Shinty is a team game played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands, and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread, being once competitively played on a widespread basis in England and other areas in the...
club from Lochgilphead
Lochgilphead
Lochgilphead is a town and former burgh in Scotland, with a population of around 3,000 people. It is the administrative centre of Argyll and Bute. The town lies at the end of Loch Gilp and lies on the banks of the Crinan Canal....
, Argyll
Argyll
Argyll , archaically Argyle , is a region of western Scotland corresponding with most of the part of ancient Dál Riata that was located on the island of Great Britain, and in a historical context can be used to mean the entire western coast between the Mull of Kintyre and Cape Wrath...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. The club was founded in 1977 in its present form. The club plays in South Division One and has a reserve side in the Bullough cup. The club is associated with Dunadd ladies team.
History
The original Kilmory Shinty Club existed from 1914 and had success in the 1930s. After the Second World War, the club reformed as Kilmory United and played until 1955. After the reformation of the club in 1977, the club also formed a second team which took the name Furnace, one of the most famous names in shinty.Furnace Shinty Club
Furnace won the Camanachd Cup in 1923 without conceding a goal to any team. This feat has never been repeated, it was also an example of Furnace using early sports science to deduce that ther final opponent's, Newtonmore, stamina was due to their background as gameskeepers and shepherds, Furnace then started doing road running to build up their leg strength.http://forargyll.com/2010/08/furnace-at-play/ Furnace then joined with InverarayInveraray Shinty Club
Inveraray Shinty Club is a shinty club from Inveraray, Argyll, Scotland. It plays in the Scottish Hydro Premier Division. There is also a reserve team who plays in the South Division One as well as a Ladies team.-History:...
as Lochfyneside and twice reached but lost in the Camanachd Cup Finals of 1949 and 1953. However, Furnace had gone into abeyance many years before the resurrection of the name. http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/shinty-history-in-the-making-1.185268
The use of the name Furnace ceased in the mid 1990s, the last Kilmory reserve team playing as Kilmory. The club's second team restarted in 2008 and will compete in the Bullough Cup.
Kilmory Today
The club won South Division One in 2004 but lost to StrathglassStrathglass Shinty Club
Strathglass Shinty Club or "Comunn Camanachd Straghlais" in Scottish Gaelic is a shinty club from Cannich, Inverness-shire. The Club was founded in 1879, is considered to be the oldest constituted club in shinty and played a major role in the development of the rules of the sport...
in a playoff for promotion to the National League. The club struggled in the 2011 season, avoiding relegation by beating Aberdour in the penultimate game of the season. This was a disappointing year after a successful 2010 that saw them reach third in the league.
Dunadd Camanachd
The club is associated with DunaddDunadd
Dunadd, , is an Iron Age and later hillfort near Kilmartin in Argyll and Bute, Scotland and believed to be the capital of the ancient kingdom of Dál Riata.-Description:...
Camanachd, which was one of the original teams to start playing Women's Shinty
Women's shinty
Women's shinty is a sport identical to the men's game - with the same rules, same sized pitch and same equipment. However its history is significantly different. Social pressures - along with the broader game's self image - resulted in a largely hidden history until comparatively recently...
. It was a club which was a dominant force in the early years of the game before Glengarry and Glasgow Mid-Argyll rose to prominence.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/ross-hits-rivals-for-six-as-kingussie-1.270033