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1979 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship
The 1979 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 70th staging of the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1909. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place at the Cork Convention on 4 February 1979. The championship began on 11 May 1979 and ended on 19 August 1979. On 19 August 1979, Éire Óg won the championship following a 7–11 to 5–08 defeat of Mallow in the final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. This was first ever championship title. Results First round Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final References {{Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship The Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork IAHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Cork County Board ... Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Naples
The flag of Naples is a vexillological symbol of the city of Naples, the capital of the Southern Italian region of Campania. The current flag representative of the city consists of two equal-sized rectangles, a golden yellow on the left and on the right side the colour is red. Previously the flag of Naples meant a national flag during the times of the Kingdom of Naples, several different flags were used depending on who controlled the nation at the time. Perhaps the most prominent flags association with the kingdom are the original Angevin flag, the Bourbon flag and the ''senyera'' when the country was part of the Crown of Aragon. History Naples has had other flags in the past, including flags of the Kingdom of Naples. After Naples was united with Sicily in 1442, the flag used the colours of Aragon. Starting in 1735, the flag of the Kingdom of Naples was green and white. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Rovers GAA
Glen Rovers is a Cork (city), Cork-based Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Blackpool, Cork, Ireland. The club was founded in 1916 and is primarily concerned with the game of hurling. They were Cork senior hurling champions in 2015 and 2016, having won their first title in 26 years in 2015. They retained the championship in 2016, when they beat Erin's Own in the final. Only Blackrock have won more Cork senior hurling championships. Hurling Colours In the early days of the club, its colours were green, white and gold. The Easter Rising and the execution of the leaders took place in the same year the Glen was founded. These events left such an impression on the minds of the Irish public that it was decided to add a black band to the jersey to honour the recently deceased patriots. This distinctive and unique hooped jersey has been used ever since. The Glen Rovers crest is also unique, and features a modernised Celtic cross with the image of the north side glen in the cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aghabullogue GAA
Aghabullogue GAA are a Gaelic Athletic Association club in County Cork, Ireland. They are affiliated to the Cork County Board and play in the mid-Cork (Muskerry) division of Cork GAA. Aghabullogue cater for both hurling and Gaelic football. History Aghabullogue have a long tradition of hurling. In 1890, they won the Cork Senior Hurling Championship. By the rules of the GAA at that time, this victory allowed Aghabullogue to go on and represent Cork in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. They later collected a Munster title following a victory over Kerry. There was controversy in the subsequent All-Ireland final when an Aghabullogue men left the field after one of the players had his toe broken by a Wexford man's hurley. At a meeting the following week of the Gaelic Athletic Association's Central Council it was agreed to award Cork the All-Ireland title. In 1910, they won the Cork Intermediate Championship and in 1991 won the Cork County Junior Hurling Championship af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buttevant GAA
Buttevant GAA club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the town of Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland. The club was founded in 1884 and fields teams in both Gaelic football and hurling. The club is a member of the Avondhu divisional board. The club plays under the name Awbeg Rangers for football competitions. History Founded in 1884 by Fr. Con Buckley (who attended the inaugural meeting of the GAA in Hayes Hotel in Thurles in the same year), Buttevant GAA has fielded teams in Hurling and Football since that time. The club has played in the former British army barracks since 1922, and officially took over the grounds from the state in the 1950s. Success on the field of play came in 1926 when the Intermediate Footballers won the Cork County Championship. The club also contested and lost the Intermediate Hurling Final in the same year. After numerous attempts, the club finally won the Cork Intermediate Hurling Final in 1940, the team was backboned by Cork's 'four in a row ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watergrasshill
Watergrasshill () is a village in north east County Cork in Ireland. Watergrasshill is within the Cork North-Central Dáil constituency. Bypassed in 2003, the village is situated on the R639 road and accessible via junction 17 of the M8 motorway. The 2016 census recorded a population of 1,346. History Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number standing stones, fulacht fiadh, and ringfort sites in the surrounding townlands of Bishop's Island and Tinageragh. The Roman Catholic 'Church of the Immaculate Conception' was completed in 1895. The Church of Ireland church in the village was built . This church was deconsecrated in 1990 and has since been used as an arts venue. The National Ploughing Championships were held in the Watergrasshill area in 1974 and 1979. Demographics According to ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland'', published by Samuel Lewis in 1837, Watergrasshill then had a population of 533 people. The village is located within the commuter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banteer
Banteer () is a village in north County Cork, Ireland located in the Civic Parish of Clonmeen in the Barony of Duhallow. It is near the town of Mallow. Banteer is within the Cork North-West Dáil constituency. History In 1651, the Battle of Knocknaclashy, the last pitched battle of the Irish Confederate Wars, took place near the village, when English Parliamentarians under Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery defeated an Irish force under Donagh MacCarthy, Viscount Muskerry. Organizations Local sporting organizations include a Gaelic football club known simply as "Lyre" after a nearby village and a hurling club known as Banteer. The Glen Theatre is a community-owned and managed centre for the arts. The theatre was originally Banteer National School (built 1840). Transport Banteer railway station opened on 16 April 1853 and was closed for goods traffic on 2 September 1976. It is on the Mallow to Tralee railway line. The Banter to Nadd road was widened and surfaced in 1838 and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inniscarra
Inniscarra () is a civil parish in the barony of Muskerry East, County Cork, Ireland. It is located about 15km west of Cork city. The local GAA club is Inniscarra GAA and Dripsey GAA. Inniscarra is located on the north side of the River Lee. Inniscarra Dam is one of the two Hydro-Electric Dams on the River Lee. People * Rena Buckley; former captain of both the Cork senior ladies' football team and the Cork senior camogie team The Cork county camogie team represents Cork in camogie. The team competes at inter-county level. Cork camogie has experienced four periods of ascendancy in the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, winning 24 titles in all. The team won six .... * John Ryan, Irish and Munster rugby player is from Berrings, a townland in Inniscarra References Civil parishes of County Cork {{Cork-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castlelyons
Castlelyons () is a small village in the east of County Cork, Ireland. It is also a civil parish in the barony of Barrymore. Civil parish of Castlelyons. The name is derived from a stronghold of the Uí Liatháin - an early medieval kingdom. It is situated south of . In the 2016 census it recorded a population of 374. Castlelyons is part of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballyhea GAA
Ballyhea GAA is a hurling club in the village of Ballyhea in Cork, Ireland. The club is affiliated to the Avondhu, division of Cork GAA. As of 2015, the club was competing in the Cork Senior Hurling Championship. It does not field Gaelic football teams. History Ballyhea GAA Club has been in existence for over 126 years. The history of the club published in 1984 say the first GAA meeting took place in Jim Powers's Forge in the townland of Pruntas in late 1885 or early 1886. During its history the club has won County Championships in Senior, Intermediate, Junior and Juvenile Hurling. Over the years, Ballyhea players have helped Avondhu to County success. 1952 saw Lack Morrissey play in goal, Mick Quinn was corner-back, Jim Walshe was full-forward. 1966 saw Billy Fitzgibbon, Jack Russell, and Pat Behan win Senior County medals. All-Ireland medals have come to the parish from most grades, Vocational Schools Colleges, Minor, Under-21 and the two Senior, Johnny O'Callaghan in 1986 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishopstown GAA
Bishopstown Hurling and Football Club is a Cork-based Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the Bishopstown area of Cork city, Republic of Ireland. The club was founded in 1957. Honours Hurling * Cork Senior Hurling Championship Runners-Up 2012 * Cork Minor Hurling Championship Winners (2) 2003 and 2004 * Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship (1) 2006 * Munster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship Runners up 2006 * Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship Winners (1) 1992 * Cork Under-21 Hurling Championship Winners (2) 2006 and 2007 * Cork City Junior A Hurling Championship Winners (1) 1977 , Runners-Up 1961, 1973 Football * Cork Senior Football Championship Runners-up to Nemo Rangers in 2002 and Carbery in 2004 * Cork Intermediate Football Championship Winners (1) 1974 * Cork Minor Football Championship Winners (3) 1992, 1993, 2000 * Cork Under-21 Football Championship Winners (1) 1992 , Runners-Up 1987, 1997 * City Junior Football Championship Winners (2) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fermoy GAA
Fermoy GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association based in the town of Fermoy, Cork, Ireland. The club fields teams in competitions organized by the Cork GAA county board and the Avondhu GAA divisional board. The club plays both Gaelic football and hurling. History Fermoy Gaelic Athletic Association club was founded in 1886 at a meeting in the National League Rooms (now called Fermoy Commercial club in O'Neill Crowley Quay or present home to the Fermoy Bridge club). William Troy was the club's first chairman. He was also one of the Munster delegates to the second All-Ireland Congress held in Thurles in 1887, and was elected one of the first Vice-Presidents of the GAA National Executive Body. Clondulane village in the suburbs of Fermoy was the hub of Fermoy teams at that time, due to the large employment available at the Flour Mills which were situated there for many years. Achievements * Cork Senior Football Championship (7): 1895, 1989, 1899, 1990, 1905, 1906, 1945 * Cork Premier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newtownshandrum GAA
Newtownshandrum GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the small village of Newtownshandrum in County Cork, Ireland. The club, situated in half a parish of about 800 people, was founded in 1896 and is almost exclusively concerned with the game of hurling. In senior hurling Newtownshandrum compete annually in the Cork Senior Club Hurling Championship, which they have won four times as of 2009. The club, one of the few senior teams from the Avondhu division in the northern part of the county, also competes in various other championships in all grades within Cork. Overview The oldest piece of evidence which shows the existence of hurling in Newtownshandrum comes in the form of a medal inscribed 'Newtown Hurling Club 1896'. An old ballad is the first record of a Newtownshandrum hurling game played in nearby Milford. In spite of having a population of little more than 800 people, Newtownshandrum has become one of the most successful hurling clubs in Cork over the last ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
