Beauly Shinty Club is a

shinty Shinty ( gd, camanachd, iomain) 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 in Scotland, an ...

club from

Beauly Beauly ( ; ; gd, A' Mhanachainn) is a village in the Highland area, on the River Beauly, west of Inverness by the Far North railway line. The town is historically within Kilmorack Parish of the Scottish County of Inverness. The land around B ...

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

. The club was founded in 1892. The club has two sides, the first team competing in Marine Harvest National Division One and the second team in North Division One.

History

Beauly was founded in 1892, and has won the

Camanachd Cup The Camanachd Association Challenge Cup known as the Camanachd Cup (or less commonly the Scottish Cup) is the premier competition in the sport of shinty. It is one of the five trophies considered to be part of the Grand Slam in the sport of shin ...

on three occasions, in 189

1898 and 1913. After the 1898 triumph against Inveraray Shinty Club, Inveraray, Beauly competed against a

London Camanachd London Camanachd is a shinty club in England. They have historically been attached to the South District. They went into abeyance in 1992 but were reconstituted in 2005. They played the first officially recognised Shinty match outside Scotlan ...

side and was granted the title "Champions of the World". In 2005, the club won North Division One but due to league reconstruction remained in this division along with sides from the disbanded National League One. In 2006, they were again denied promotion to the top-flight but this time by losing 1–0 to South Division One runners up,

Kyles Athletic Kyles Athletic Shinty Club is a shinty team from Tighnabruaich, Argyll, Scotland. It is one of the sport's most illustrious names, presently playing in the Marine Harvest Premiership with their second team is playing in South Division one. In 20 ...

in a play-off. The second team won North Division Three in 2009 but were relegated in 2010. The club has an historic rivalry with near neighbours, Lovat and this is marked every year with the annual New Year Fixture, the

Lovat Cup The Lovat Cup is a trophy in the sport of shinty contested annually at New Year by Beauly Shinty Club and Lovat Shinty Club. The trophy was first played for in 1904 and is very popula attracting the second largest crowfor a shinty fixture in Sco ...

. In 2005 the fixture attracted nationwide attention due to a

Northern Constabulary The Northern Constabulary ( gd, Poileas a' Chinn a Tuath) was the territorial police force responsible for Northern Scotland, covering the Highland council area along with the Western Isles, the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands, which make ...

crackdown on public alcohol consumption and again in 2007 by Beauly's decision to charge admission. The club once amalgamated with Lovat for a short period which is when the club won the Camanachd cup in 1913 with 5 Beauly players and 7 Lovat players. Beauly also has a strong youth development system, and has teams competing at Under 12-, Under 14- and Under 17-levels. The Under 17-teams have been very successful in recent years winning the WJ Cameron Cup in 2008, and have hopes to retain that cup in 2009. The youngsters also reached another two finals in the last two years, but fell short in both, succumbing to a 5–1 and 2–1 defeat to Kilmallie and Fort William, respectively. The club received funding from LEADER in November 2009 in order to redevelop Braeview Park, switching the orientation of the park and installing crowd barriers, thus allowing it to host larger finals, having successfully staged

Balliemore Cup The Balliemore Cup is a knock-out cup in the sport of shinty. It is the Intermediate Championship run under the auspices of the Camanachd Association and only first teams competing in the National, North Division One and South Division One are eli ...

finals and

semi-finals in recent year

In the season of 2012 Conor Cormack and David Maclean were selected for Scotland at under 21 level to compete against Ireland at Ennis County Clare, both players produced excellent performances for their country with Conor being described as a Colossus in the heart of the Scotland defence. Also in the season of 2012 Beaulys reserves were led to win both League Division 3 and the Strathdearn Cup by manager Ian Petrie who also received Division 3 manager of the year from the Camanachd Association. They were unbeaten in Division 3 until they met Boleskine Camanachd who narrowly beat them with a 3–2 victory at Farr. The reserves goal tally in Division 3 was 102 for and 21 against this was helped by ex-first team goalkeeper Martin Davidson who had opted to play outfield in season 2012 scoring some 36 goals in his first season in the forward line, and the experienced veteran Roger Cormack controlling everything around him and everything that was thrown at him during the successful league season. The Strathdearn Cup 2012 was won against a strong Fort William Reserve side from North Division 2 winning 3–1 with goals from Sean Stewart (2) and Conor Ross this was a massive step for the club to achieve a cup win but also against a side in the league they have now been promoted too. The first team finished second in North Division One in 2013 which will see them compete in the 2014 National Division One. The club has a strong backroom staff with club president David Calder in charge. In 2015, the club renamed its pavilion as the Paterson Pavilion in tribute to two brothers, Alastair and Donald Paterson, who were part of the Camanachd Cup winning team in 1913 but were killed at the

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in 191

In 2017 former Lovat manager Alan MacRae took over the reins at the Braeview side.

References

External links

Beauly Shinty Club Official HomepagePhotographs of the Beauly Shinty Team in action
{{Shinty teams Sports clubs established in 1892 Shinty teams Sport in Highland (council area) 1892 establishments in Scotland