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Kilmory 
Full name Kilmory Camanachd Club Gaelic name Comann Camanachd Chill Mhoire Founded 1977 Ground Kilmory Shinty Pitch, Lochgilphead League South Division One 2011 8th 
Home coloursAway coloursKilmory 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.
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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.[1] Furnace then joined with Inveraray 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. [2]
Kilmory Shinty Pitch
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 Strathglass 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 Dunadd 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.[3]
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Categories:- Shinty teams
- Sport in Argyll and Bute
- Sports clubs established in 1977
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