Furnace Shinty Club
Furnace won the Camanachd Cup in 1923 without conceding a goal to any team. This feat has never been repeated, it was also an example of Furnace using early sports science to deduce that their final opponent's, Newtonmore, stamina was due to their background as gameskeepers and shepherds, Furnace then started doing road running to build up their leg strength. Furnace then joined with Inveraray as Lochfyneside and twice reached but lost in the Camanachd Cup Finals of 1949 and 1953. However, Furnace had gone into abeyance many years before the resurrection of the name.
The use of the name Furnace ceased in the mid 1990s, the last Kilmory reserve team playing as Kilmory. The club's second team restarted in 2008 and will compete in the Bullough Cup.
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