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Some #camanachd or #shinty related news in "The Celtic Monthly", 1893 - @HughDan1956 #Gàidhlig #Scots
There are interesting notes here. There's a sense of shinty declining in popularity in some areas, though it is stated it was played up to 1840s "from Solway to Pentland Firth"
There are interesting notes here. There's a sense of shinty declining in popularity in some areas, though it is stated it was played up to 1840s "from Solway to Pentland Firth"
The article on the left describes #shinty/ #camanachd as of 1893. They say "In the Southern districts, where it was usually called 'Knotty' or 'Hummy', it has almost disappeared" - but they also refer to knotty in #Caithness, where it remains to this day @DavidsonMagnus
Shinty has many #Gàidhlig names and many #Scots names. Examples being iomain, camanachd, cnèadag (in Loch Tayside & Strathtay in #Perthshire), and apparently it was called something like "carrick" in #Fife - from #Gàidhlig carraig, a knotted bit of wood,showing relation to knotty
Some #Scots names for #shinty would include shinty itself, shinny, knotty, hummy, carrick and also hailes. Sometimes "golf" and "shinty" were interchangeable in olden times
Quote about knotty (shinty) in Lowland #Caithness @DavidsonMagnus :
"Have Caithness-men forgotten the good old times on Dunnet Sands, when they waged earnest warfare at knotty, headed by their lairds. Traill of Ratter and Sinclair of Freswick?"
"Have Caithness-men forgotten the good old times on Dunnet Sands, when they waged earnest warfare at knotty, headed by their lairds. Traill of Ratter and Sinclair of Freswick?"
Quotes too about #Sutherland and surrounds @DavidsonMagnus @Steaph_Risnidh -
"At one time Durness was famous for its great Shinty Gatherings, which eclipsed even the Orduighean, and in every village and district the New Year's day Shinty match was an annual institution"
"At one time Durness was famous for its great Shinty Gatherings, which eclipsed even the Orduighean, and in every village and district the New Year's day Shinty match was an annual institution"
Interestingly, the article notes that although "The Highlands are now considered the nursery of the game", and it was played at certain private schools such as Glenalmond & Loretto as "hockey", Edinburgh & Aberdeen universities had Camanachd clubs of their own
"To the cities of the South is due the credit of reviving the interest in Camanachd which we have at the present day. The Edinburgh Club is, we believe the Premier Shinty Club of the World, for at the time it was formed - in 1869 - there was no other Association of the kind"
It is very interesting that clubs were formed following the example of Edinburgh in Glasgow, London, Manchester, Alexandria, Greenock & Inverary. The complete list of clubs by 1893 were as follows:
Diaspora:
London & Northern Counties
London Scottish
Edinburgh Camanachd
Edinburgh University
Aberdeen University
Glasgow Cowal
London & Northern Counties
London Scottish
Edinburgh Camanachd
Edinburgh University
Aberdeen University
Glasgow Cowal
The chap William Murray was "chieftain of the Edinburgh Camanachd Club" - he seems to have been part of the Highland #Caithness diaspora from #Latheron @DavidsonMagnus. It is known that the bulk of Highlanders/Gaels in #Edinburgh at this time came from #Caithness & #Sutherland
"He is a wine merchant in Stockbridge, and is as well known and as popular in football as in shinty circles. There are few games which he does not play well & he always feels at home with a caman in his hand. He has played a golf match at Musselburgh with a shinty club - and won"
"His friends call him a jolly good fellow and his "Stockbrigand" familiars call him "Skye"
