Comann Camanachd Cheann Loch Seile

Kinlochshiel Shinty Club is a shinty club based in Balmacara, near Kyle of Lochalsh, Lochalsh, Scotland. The club was the result of an amalgamation of three clubs: Kintail, Lochalsh and Glenshiel, who first joined forces in 1958.
The club has two male sides, a senior team which competes in the Mowi Premiership and also have a reserve team in Mowi North 1. The women’s teams compete in the Mowi Premiership and the Mowi North League.
FOUNDED IN 1958
TROPHIES WON
Camanachd: 1
MacTavish: 1
Macaulay: 2
Balliemore: 2
Strathdearn: 4
Kinlochshiel won their first ever senior national trophy in 2016 winning the Macaulay Cup 5-3 against Inveraray. In 2017 they won their inaugural Mowi Premiership, becoming only the fourth team to do so and the second out with Badenoch. In 2021 Shiel won the Camanachd Cup, the first team from Wester Ross to ever win the cup. They added the MacTavish cup later on in the year, completing a full list of senior honours for the club, all won within five years.
The club is the only team specifically referred to in the Runrig song, Clash of the Ash, in the line;
“Tell me who’s gonna mark the Kinlochshiel Bear He’s hard as nails, quick as a flash He comes down from the caves For the clash of the ash”
– Clash of the Ash, C&R MacDonald, 2007
TEAM MANAGERS
Mens 1st Team: Willie MacRae
Mens 2nd Team: Duncan MacLeod
Ladies – Andrew MacKenzie