Ballachulish Camanachd Club

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clubname = Ballachulish


fullname = Ballachulish Camanachd Club
gaelicname = Comann Camanachd Bhaile a' Chaolais
nickname = The Quarrymen
founded = 1893
ground = Jubilee Park, Ballachulish
manager = ?
league = South Division 1
season = 2006
position = 3rd
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Ballachulish Camanachd Club is a shinty team from Ballachulish, Lochaber, Scotland. The club was founded in 1893 the same year as the Camanachd Association. One of the sport's most famous clubs, they won the Camanachd Cup four times before the Great War. The club is also the most northerly of teams playing in the South district, the kyle at Ballachulish being the traditional demarcation point between the two districts. The club plays in South Division One.

History

Founded in 1893, the club won the Scottish Cup in 1899, 1901, 1911 and 1912. The outbreak of war was to put an end to this run of success and the club has never quite achieved these heights again. The club regained some modicum of strength by winning the Mactavish Cup in 1938 before war intervened again. The last Camanachd Cup Final appearance to date was in 1948 when they lost to Newtonmore.

The club has never recovered the Camanachd Cup, but has several Celtic, Sutherland and Dunn Cups to its name and enjoyed a great spell in the 1960s. The club's second team restarted in 2007 and competed in the Bullough Cup and the Sutherland Cup but did not enter competition in 2008.

"The History of Ballachulish Shinty Club" has become a phrase used in connection with casting aspersions on any qualification seen as obscure or of low utility. [http://www.thisiswirral.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1836045.mostcommented.taxi_drivers_reach_training_milestone.php]

External links

* [http://www.shinty.com/ballachulish/default.htm Ballachulish @ Shinty.com]
* [http://www.thisiswirral.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1836045.mostcommented.taxi_drivers_reach_training_milestone.php Ballachulish History Jibe]
* [http://www.ballachulish.org.uk/shinty/ Ballachulish Shinty Club]