Cornwall Shinty Club
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| Full name | Cornwall Shinty Club |
| Gaelic name | Comann Camanachd na Cornies |
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| Nickname | The Pasties |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Ground | The Dracaena Centre, Falmouth |
| Manager | Matt Mössop |
| League | SW Shinty League |
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The Cornwall Shinty Club is a shinty club from Cornwall in the UK. Formed in 2012, it is one of few clubs outside the Scottish Highlands.
Shinty-like stick games were played in Cornwall as well as across much of England before the end of the 19th century. A number of Cornish newspaper references show that the game was popular into the early 20th Century, with shinty relays included in a number of school sports days, matches recorded and Scottish shinty developments also recorded.
In 1919 The Cornishman newspaper's West Cornwall News section related: 'Scotland is enthusiastic over the revival of shinty. The championship competition is to start this year, and entries are to be received up to November 1. Kingussie Club was the last winner of the cup. International contests may be arranged. Lord Lovat is re-elected chief' (CM24/9/1919 p5). In Cornwall locals played a form shinty in the streets of Penryn with lumps of coal in the 1960s. The more standard form continued to be played regularly right up until the 1980s in Cornwall, though latterly at fewer venues. It was played intermittently in Cornwall in the mid 1990s, though predominantly by small groups of visitors more accustomed to playing in Scotland.
London Camanachd lead the resurgence from the 1980s onwards, though Cornwall and then wider England, fielding sides in the St Andrews Sixes, though both teams were predominantly made up of ex-university and armed forces players.
The current club was formed in The Thirsty Scholar in Penryn on 15 March 2012, with the Committee made up of a group of archaeologists and archaeological students, chaired by Matt Mõssop, a former St Andrews University and Scottish Universities player.
Cornwall had their first match against London Camanachd in April 2012 at the community green in Flax Bourton. This was the first Shinty Shop Challenge Cup. The match ended 1-1. Cornwall competed at the St. Andrew's Sixes in 2012 losing out to the eventual winners Glasgow Island.
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