Shinty

Shinty is a team sport played using sticks called “caman” to hit a ball into the goal. It is mainly a sport of Scottish Highlands, but was formerly played in England and other areas in the world where Scottish Highlanders migrated. The sport was derived from the Irish game of Hurling and Welsh game of Bando but has its unique rules. The game was traditionally played during winters usually at the New Year’s Day but is now played in the summer season. The world governing body of shinty is the Camanachd Association and was formed in 1893.

To score more goals (points) than the opponent team by driving the small ball legally into the opponent’s goal called “hail.”

General History

Hurling, an Irish side interest for something like 2,000 years like shinty, is derived itself from the common diversion to both public. Shinty/Hurling shows up conspicuously in the legend of Cúchulainn, the Celtic folklore hero. A comparable amusement is played on the Isle of Man known as cammag, a name related to camanachd. The old type of hurling played in the northern portion of Ireland, called "commons", looked like shinty more intently than the traditional type of hurling today. Like shinty, it was usually known as camánacht and was customarily played in winter. It is as yet played routinely on St Stephen's Day in St John's.

 

The roots of the name shinty are questionable. There is a hypothesis that the name was gotten from the cries utilised in the amusement; shin ye, shin you and shin t'ye, other tongue names were shinnins, shinnack and shinnup, or as Hugh Dan MacLennan proposes from the Scottish Gaelic sìnteag. However, there was never one sweeping name for the diversion, as it held distinctive names from glen to glen, including cluich-bhall (play-ball in English) and in the Scottish Lowlands, where it was once in the past alluded to as Hailes, normal/cammon (caman), cammock (from Scottish Gaelic camag), knotty and different names, just as the terms still used to allude to it in present-day Gaelic, camanachd or iomain. Shinty was at one time a well-known diversion in swamp Scotland, as appeared by its name Shintie, a term which took that structure around 1700, uprooting the prior Shinnie - of which there is a composed record around 100 years sooner. Shinnie may likewise get from "shin" in English, with the suffix"ie", a typical end to the name of numerous diversions in Scotland.