Skye Camanachd Skye Camanachd Skye Camanachd is a shinty team from the Isle of Skye, Highland, Scotland. It plays in the Premier Division and has a reserve team in North Division One, as well as a Ladies team in the WCA National Division One and a Ladies reserve team in the WCA Development League. The club is based at Pairc nan Laoch, Portree.u Skye had a strong tradition of playing shinty on the Old Celtic New Year, and there were a Portree Club and a Bernisdale Club in existence in the 1880s. However, Skye Camanachd in its present form came into being
Etymology of Skye word for "winged", which may describe the island's peninsulas that radiate out from a mountainous centre, has also been suggested. In the Norse sagas Skye is called "Skíð", for example in the "Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar", and in a skaldic poem in "Saga Magnús konungs berfœtts" in the "Heimskringla" from c. 1230. According to other authors, it was referred to in Norse as "skuy" "misty isle", "*skýey", or "skuyö" "cloud isle". It is not certain whether the Gaelic poetic name for the island, "Eilean a' Cheò" "isle of the mist" precedes or postdates the Norse name. Some legends also associate the