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Shinty is a mixed gender sport, Gaelic in origin and the ancestor of Golf and Hockey. We train in Falmouth and have a lively social side.

Get in touch or pop along to a training session Wednesdays 6-8pm, and Sundays 2-4pm at Dracaena centre (upper pitch).

17/06/2026

We are looking forward to traveling up to Oxford this weekend! We will be bringing 2 teams to for their annual sixes tournament. If you are in the area and would like to take part let us know!
As always supporters are welcome. 🏑

16/06/2026

With less than 4 weeks until Summer Tour, we just wanted to give a massive shout out to The Old Inn for being very generous sponsors. Your support is helping to make this amazing trip possible, and we’re incredibly grateful. We are really looking forward to our travels to Scotland and to pick up some shinty tips. Playing teams from Caberfeidh Shinty Club, Lochcarron Shinty Club Skye Camanachd Shinty 🏑🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍻

13/06/2026

Great game today against Durham Shinty Club
Ended with a 9-4 win to us. But some great playing by everyone! Some fab goals from both sides. Looking forward to Oxford sixes next weekend!

Now on to Falmouth to start off our night of shanties!

12/06/2026

Team sheets for our first match of the English Shinty League season at home against Durham Shinty Club on Saturday, 2pm start. Looking forward to a great game and fun night out afterwards! Starting at 5.30pm Jacobs Ladder the sister pub to our generous summer tour sponsors The Old Inn, massive thank you to them for sponsoring us! Where Sianti Mor will be performing. We will also be heading to our amazing sponsor Finn Mcouls as well on Saturday.

As always feel free to come along and watch.

04/06/2026

Our first league match for the ESL summer season is against on Saturday 13th June. 2pm start at the top pitch of the Dracaena Centre in Falmouth (TR11 2ES). Heading into Falmouth for a fun night at the Shanty Festival afterwards!

We are looking forward to a great game, hopefully see lots of you out, as always feel free to come a long and watch!

Watch this space for more updates :)

Apologies if I caused any confusion to those who saw the previous post which had the wrong date on!

06/05/2026

Bristol Sixes! A couple of weeks ago we attended Bristol Sixes with our 2 Cornwall teams - with one of them coming 3rd overall behind strong teams from and . We had some competitive matches against and as well! A wonderful day for shinty in the sun!

We are looking forward to our next English Shinty League match on the 13th June at home against Durham.

In the meantime we have training twice a week at the Dracaena Centre in Falmouth 6-8pm on Wednesdays and 2-4pm on Sundays. We welcome new players at any time and no experience is needed, so feel free to come along to our friendly and inclusive club. Drop us a message if you have anymore questions :)

03/05/2026

This afternoon we had Town V Gown. We played 9 a side with the townies winning 6-1. Well done to all the players and thank you everyone for coming.

Well done to for getting top women’s goal scorer! And to for getting top men’s goal scorer, this season.

27/04/2026

On Saturday we attended Bristol 6s tournament to kick of the ESA summer league. Overall in the tournament one of our teams came 3rd behind 2 very strong teams from Bristol and London. With our other coming 5th behind Durham.
We all had an amazing time and all played great, we are looking forward to the rest of the season with our next match at home against Durham on the 13th June.

But this weekend we take a break and have our Town V Gown game at the Channel 4 pitch in Falmouth, hopefully this will be a 12 match so would love as many people to come along as possible!

23/04/2026

Apologies for the slight delay in posting the dates for the upcoming ESA Summer League!
The team listed first is the club playing at home :)
Hope lots of you can make our matches!
As alway we welcome new player and spectators 🏑

04/01/2026

Slightly belated Christmas post!
These are the results of the awards given out at our Christmas dinner last month - thank you to all the business which sponsored each award.
Congratulations to all those who won awards and hope everyone who came had an amazing time!
Thank you for for joining us, after playing a couple of very muddy matches in the SWSL.
Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and has a wonderful 2026! Looking forward to seeing everyone and playing lots more shinty in 2026!

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