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Event: Shinty Matches - Loch Ness Area

Starting on: 31/07/2010 Ends on: 31/07/2010

Camanachd Association Loch Ness Area Fixtures

The teams and fixtures featured are all located and will be played around the Loch Ness area, but games are played all over the Highlands and beyond. Visitors are welcome, and a small gate fee or collection is usually made to help support the teams.

Camanachd Association
Fixtures 31st July 2010

Aberdein Considine Sutherland Cup Final
Lovat         V    Glenurquhart
(16.00 Throw Up at The Eilean, Newtonmore)

Marine Harvest North Division 1
Beauly        v    Lochaber
Inverness    v    Caberfeidh

Marine Harvest North Division 2
Beauly        v        Kingussie    (12.00 Throw Up)
Glengarry    v        Skye

Fixtures are usually played at the home park of the first team listed in each game.

'Throw Up' (the start of the game) is generally 2.30pm unless stated above or check locally for details.

Matches may be delayed or postponed due to weather.

The game of shinty goes back to the roots of Gaelic Scotland and the even earlier heritage of the Celtic race.

It's demands of skill, speed, stamina and courage make 'camanachd', the sport of the curved stick, the perfect exercise of a warrior people. The qualities of body and mind it developed, clearly contributed to the just fame of the Highlander in battle, not only those long ago but up until the last two World Wars. During the period of these two universal conflicts, organised shinty was discontinued and many of the playing generations then were lost to campaigns far distant from the pitches where they had followed this deeply-loved recreation of their ancestors.

Within the rivalries of the game, clan against clan, parish against parish and brae against strath, there developed a social comradeship in the world of camanachd and this continues to the present day.

Useful Shinty Links:

Camanachd Association: http://www.shinty.org.uk/Default.aspx

Lovat: http://www.shinty.org.uk/default.aspx?Sub=29&A=2

Strathglass: http://www.shinty.org.uk/default.aspx?Sub=29&A=2

Boleskine: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/shinty/index.htm

Glenurquhart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenurquhart_Shinty_Club

Glengarry: http://www.shinty.org.uk/default.aspx?Sub=29&A=3

Beauly: http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=5969514583

A well written, funny, informative shinty blog which may tell you more then you ever needed to know about the machinations of the game: http://keepingoutofthed.blogspot.com/