Cowal and Bute (shinty)

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Cowal and Bute
Full nameCowal and Bute Camanachd Club
Gaelic nameComann Camanachd Bhòid agus Chomhghaill
NicknameThe Cowgirls/The Moos
Founded2003
GroundCastle Toward, Dunoon
ManagerLeon Braid
LeagueSouth League
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Cowal and Bute Camanachd is a shinty club based in Dunoon, on the Cowal Peninsula, west of Scotland. The club fields a side in the Women's League and is the only shinty team at adult level operating in Dunoon. [1]

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History

The club was founded in 2003 and plays in Dunoon, there has historically not been shinty played in the town of Dunoon but the hinterland of the Cowal peninsula plays host to several illustrious clubs with male sides Kyles Athletic, Strachur and Col-Glen.

The club produced a naked calendar in 2006.

The team's catchment area includes the Isle of Bute and the Cowal peninsula.

At present there is no male team representing Dunoon in national shinty although there is a youth system in the town.

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References

  1. Club History [ permanent dead link ],