Cruachanside Camanachd 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 which plays in

Taynuilt Taynuilt (; , meaning 'the house by the stream') is a large village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland located at the western entrance to the narrow Pass of Brander. Location The village is situated on the River Nant about a kilometre before the rive ...

Argyll Argyll (; archaically Argyle, in modern Gaelic, ), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland. Argyll is of ancient origin, and corresponds to most of the part of the ancient kingdom of ...

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 ...

. It plays in South Division One. It is a partnership between

Taynuilt Shinty Club Taynuilt Shinty Club is a shinty team based in Taynuilt, Scotland. The club has existed in several different forms most recently in junior form but has reformed and won South Division Two in 2009. History Taynuilt has a history of abeyance alt ...

and

Glenorchy Camanachd Glenorchy Camanachd is a shinty club from Dalmally, Scotland. In 2022, Glenorchy combined with Taynuilt at senior level to field a team as Cruachanside. History Old letters and poetry show that organised shinty was played in Dalmally in an ...

at senior level, allowing both clubs to have representation at adult leve

History

The club was officially founded in 2022 as merger between the two club

They competed in the South Division One. They finished in the bottom half of the table. The club welcomed back

Gary Innes Gary Innes (born 13 December 1980) is a Scottish musician, shinty player, composer and a broadcaster from Spean Bridge, Lochaber, Scotland. He was a founder member of Scottish folk-rock band Mànran. Music Innes has had a professional c ...

to shinty, after the musician had retired for 8 years. The Club's Black and Orange colours reflect the traditional black and white colours of Glenorchy and the orange of Taynuilt.

References

External links

Taynuilt Sports Hub

YouTube Video from 2019 with history of club
{{Shinty teams Shinty teams Sport in Argyll and Bute Sports clubs and teams established in 2022 2022 establishments in Scotland