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Shinty, also known as camanachd or iomain, is a team sport played with sticks and a ball. Now played almost exclusively in the Scottish Highlands, but formerly more widespread, the sport was derived from the same root as the Irish game, hurling and is similar to bandy.

Shinty is one of the forebears of ice hockey, Scottish immigrants to Nova Scotia playing a game on ice in 1800 at Windsor. In Canada, informal hockey games are still called shinny. It was also a predecessor of bandy.

In the Scottish Lowlands, it was formerly referred to as common/cammon (caman), cammock (from Scottish Gaelic camag), knotty and various other names.

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Boleskine Camanachd - Team from the Stratherrick and Foyers area of Scotland. Includes club and local history, player and team profiles, results, online magazine, and rules of the game.
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Camanachd Association - Shinty's ruling body - results, fixtures, teams, rules and news.
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404 Edinburgh East Lothian Shinty Club - Includes news, results, fixtures, pictures, and history.
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Edinburgh University Shinty Club - Includes news and results for the men's and women's teams and related links.

Glenorchy Camanachd - News items, contact information, pictures and history of the sport in that region.
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Gryffe Shinty Club - Located in Renfrewshire. Fixtures, rules, and photo gallery.

Newtonmore Camanachd Club - History, pictures, and a description of the sport.

Northern California Camanachd Club - Grew out of the various Scottish cultural activities of several groups in the San Francisco Bay area, with teams forming in the South Bay and the East Bay. Includes rules, schedule, photos, news, club shop, articles, equipment summary, history of the sport, and related links.
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404 Shinty's Place and Space in World Sport - Article by Hugh Dan MacLennan, Aberdeen University, Scotland.

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