Kinlochshiel won their first ever senior national trophy in 2016 winning theMacaulay 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
