Shinty Club History

Shinty has been played in Ballachulish for over 100years with the current Ballachulish Club being founded in 1893.
 
Quite amazing to think that three teams actually existed in the area at that time East & West Laroch & Glencoe and that after the two Ballachulish Teams merged to make one strong team, Glencoe continued to compete against them for a number of years.

In their first twenty years of existence Ballachulish won the coveted Camanachd Cup on no less than four occasions ? 1899, 1901, 1911 & 1912, but the outbreak of war curtailed their immediate and more importantly their future success. The last time the club appeared in a Camanachd Cup final was in 1942 when they lost out 4-2 to their great rivals of that time Newtonmore, even although they went on to gain a little revenge a week later by beating them in the McTavish Cup Final.

The club has continued in existence to this date, although there was a short period when there was no shinty played in the village at all. The club continues to play their home fixtures at the Jubilee Park in Ballachulish on a park that is the centre of the village and a superb setting for the game of shinty to be played.

Shinty From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A shinty game in progress
Shinty (or camanachd or iomain in modern Scottish Gaelic) is a team sport played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played almost exclusively in the Highlands of Scotland, 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 where Scottish Highlanders migrated.

Whilst comparisons are often made with field hockey, the two sports have several important differences. In shinty, a player is allowed to play the ball in the air and is allowed to use both sides of the stick. The stick may also be used to block and to tackle, although a player may not come down on an opponent's stick, a practice called hacking. A player may tackle using the body as long as this is shoulder-to-shoulder as in football.

The sport was derived from the same root as the Irish game of hurling but has developed different rules and features. These rules are governed by the Camanachd Association.
Shinty is also one of the forebears of ice hockey: in 1800, Scottish immigrants to Nova Scotia played a game on ice at Windsor. In Canada, informal hockey games are still called shinny.

Full Name: Ballachulish Camanachd Club
Gaelic Name: Comann Camanachd Bhaile a' Chaolais
Nickname: The Quarrymen
Founded: 1893
Ground: Jubilee Park, Ballachulish
Manager: David MacPhee, William Sutherland
League: South Division 1
2008: 7th