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Cooraclare
Cooraclare () is a village near Kilrush, in County Clare, Ireland, and a Catholic parish by the same name. Location The village of Cooraclare is in the parish of Cooraclare (Kilmacduane) in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. It is from Kilrush on the road from Kilrush to Miltown Malbay. The old name for the parish is Kilmacduane, which was joined for a while to the parish of Kilmihil. In 1848 the two were again separated and Cooraclare took its present name. The parish includes the village of Cree, at times spelled Creegh. The parish has two churches, St Senan's in Cooraclare and St Mary's in Cree. Cooraclare lies on the River Doonbeg. Sport and culture Cooraclare have won the Clare Senior Football Championship in 1915, 1917, 1918, 1925, 1944, 1956, 1964, 1965, 1986 and 1997, and also hosts the Rose of Clare Festival every year in August. A song associated with Cooraclare is entitled "The Chapel Gate of Cooraclare". People Famous natives or residents include: * Bre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Senior Football Championship
The Clare Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition organised by Clare GAA between the top twelve gaelic football clubs in County Clare, Ireland. The winners represent the county in the Munster Senior Club Football Championship, the winners of which progress to the semi-finals of the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. The Clare SFC final is generally held in the month of October and is played at Cusack Park in Ennis. In 2014 Cratloe completed a historic first Clare Senior Championship'' 'Double' ''in eighty-five years since the famous Ennis Dalcassians in 1929. In 2016 a Football Review Agreement decided that from 2019 onwards the Clare Senior and Intermediate Football Championships would both involve twelve teams in an effort to make both more competitive. This meant that five clubs would lose their senior status and be relegated down to the Clare Intermediate Football Championship. The eleven remaining senior clubs wou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooraclare Village Sign - Geograph
Cooraclare () is a village near Kilrush, in County Clare, Ireland, and a Catholic parish by the same name. Location The village of Cooraclare is in the parish of Cooraclare (Kilmacduane) in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. It is from Kilrush on the road from Kilrush to Miltown Malbay. The old name for the parish is Kilmacduane, which was joined for a while to the parish of Kilmihil. In 1848 the two were again separated and Cooraclare took its present name. The parish includes the village of Cree, at times spelled Creegh. The parish has two churches, St Senan's in Cooraclare and St Mary's in Cree. Cooraclare lies on the River Doonbeg. Sport and culture Cooraclare have won the Clare Senior Football Championship in 1915, 1917, 1918, 1925, 1944, 1956, 1964, 1965, 1986 and 1997, and also hosts the Rose of Clare Festival every year in August. A song associated with Cooraclare is entitled "The Chapel Gate of Cooraclare". People Famous natives or residents include: * Bren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilmacduane
Kilmacduane is a civil parish in County Clare, Ireland. It contains the village of Cooraclare. Location The civil parish of Kilmacduane is in the barony of Moyarta. It is northeast of Kilrush on the road to Miltown-Malbay. In 1837 the parish held 9735 statute acres as applotted under the tithe act, much of it being hilly pasture and bog. The civil parish contains the village of Cooraclare. In 1837 the parish was part of the Church of Ireland union of Kilmurry-Clonderlaw. It was part of the Catholic union of Kilmihil, with chapels at Cooreclare and Creegh. In 1848 the Catholic parish of Cooraclare (Kilmacduane) was once again separated from Kilmihil. Former church Kilmacduane means "church of the son of Duain". "Kilmadayn" is recorded in the Papal Taxation in 1302. In 1903 the ruined church of Kilmacduan was still standing. The ruined church was built in the 11th or early 12th century, and was remodeled or perhaps rebuilt around 1480 at a time when churches were being resto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooraclare (parish)
Cooraclare, also known as Kilmacduane, is a parish in County Clare and part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. Current (2021) co-parish priest is Anthony Casey. The main church of the parish is the St. Senan's Church in Cooraclare, completed in 1836. This is a cruciform church. It was built in the time that the parish was still united with Kilmihil. Stones from the mediaeval church in Kilmacduane were used for this building. The second church of the parish is the St. Mary's Church at Cree The Cree ( cr, néhinaw, script=Latn, , etc.; french: link=no, Cri) are a Indigenous peoples of the Americas, North American Indigenous people. They live primarily in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations in Canada .... This church was built in 1828 and predates the main church by several years. file:St Marys church, Creegh (geograph 4946595).jpg, St. Mary's Church, Cree File:Kilmacduan church - Thomas Johnson Westropp 1903.jpg, Drawing from mediaeva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooraclare GAA
Cooraclare GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the village of Cooraclare, County Clare in Ireland. The club field teams exclusively in Gaelic Football competitions. Major honours * Munster Senior Club Football Championship Runners-Up: 1964 * Clare Senior Football Championship (10): 1915, 1917, 1918, 1944 ''(with Kilmihil)'', 1945, 1956, 1964, 1965, 1986, 1997 * Clare Football League Div. 1 (Cusack Cup) (13): 1945, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1966, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1992, 2004, 2009 * Clare Intermediate Football Championship The Clare Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Clare GAA, Clare County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association for the second tier football teams in the county of County Clare, Clare in Ir ... (5): 1927, 1941, 1943, 1954, 1957 ''(as Cree)'' * Clare Junior A Football Championship (3): 1965, 1988, 1998 * Clare Under-21 A Football Championship (5): 1972, 1986, 1988, 1991, 2017 R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cree (Creegh)
Cree or Creegh () is a small village in County Clare in Ireland. It is situated at a crossroads near the towns of Doonbeg and Cooraclare In the west of the county. The nearest large towns are Kilrush and Ennis which are away respectively. The Central Statistics Office 2006 census put the population of Cree and its townlands at 457. In Dromheilly Cree there is a holy shrine located which every year in August has a week of masses that people from west Clare attend. Cree is in the Cree/Cooraclare parish and in the diocese of Killaloe. Nearby villages and small towns include Cooraclare, Doonbeg, Mullagh, Quilty, Kilmihil, Kilkee and Milltown Malbay. History In the 15th and 16th centuries the land in Clare was divided into baronies. Cree comes from the Irish word ''Críoch'' meaning the end, which was because the village was situated at the border of one of these baronies Ibrickane and Corca Bhaiscin. Amenities Serving the area is a Catholic Church( Saint Mary's) one public hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Morrissey (Gaelic Footballer)
Tom Morrissey was a Gaelic footballer from Cooraclare County Clare. He won a Munster Senior Football Championship in 1992 when Clare had a surprise win over Kerry in the final. He won McGrath Cup medals in 1994 and 1995. Honours * Munster Senior Football Championship (1) 1992 * McGrath Cup The McGrath Cup is a Gaelic football competition played each January in Munster Munster ( gle, an Mhumhain or ) is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the south of Ireland. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms o ... (3) 1992 1994 1995 * National Football League Division 2 (2) 1992 1995 References External links * http://www.hoganstand.com/clare/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=42502 * http://www.hoganstand.com/Clare/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=115178 Clare inter-county Gaelic footballers Cooraclare Gaelic footballers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Clare-gaelic-football-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miltown Malbay
Milltown Malbay (), also Miltown Malbay, is a town in the west of County Clare, Ireland, near Spanish Point. The population was 829 at the 2016 Census. Name There is a townland on the southern edge of the town called Poulawillin or Pollawillin (). There is evidence that this name was once applied to the town – for example, in the ''Parish Namebook'' of the ''Ordnance Survey'' (1839) there is a reference to "Baile an Mhuillinn anciently Poll a’ Mhuillinn, Milltown Malbay". ''Malbay'' is the name of the bay to the west of Milltown. The name ''Malbay'' is thought to come from the Irish ''meall-bhaigh'', which roughly means "treacherous coast". It could also stem from the legend of the witch "Mal" who was drowned in the bay by Fionn mac Cumhaill. History The town has only existed since about 1800 but grew rapidly: by 1821 it had a population of 600. During the Great Famine (1844 - 1848) many farmers were evicted by the unpopular landlord Moroney. In the years after the famin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare County Football Team
The Clare county football team represents Clare in men's Gaelic football and is governed by Clare GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the three major annual inter-county competitions; the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Munster Senior Football Championship and the National Football League. Clare's home ground is Cusack Park, Ennis. The team's manager is Colm Collins from Cratloe. The team last won the Munster Senior Championship in 1992, but has never won the All-Ireland Senior Championship or the National League. History Clare has won two Munster Senior Football Championship (SFC) titles. The county competes in Division 2 of the National Football League. 1917: First Munster SFC title and only All-Ireland SFC final Clare won its first Munster SFC in 1917, defeating Cork on a scoreline of 5–04 to 0–01. This was after losing deciders in 1912 and 1915 to Kerry and in 1916 to Cork. Clare then faced Galway in the 1917 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Lillis
Mick Lillis is a Gaelic games coach and manager and former player. He played for the Laois county football team, later managing them and has also been involved with numerous clubs in several counties. As well as managing winning senior championship teams in Laois with Portlaoise, he also guided St Laurence's in Kildare and Palatine in Carlow to county titles. Biography Lillis is a native of Cooraclare, County Clare, but played most of his club football career with Portlaoise and briefly played with the Laois senior football team. Lillis was working as masseur for the Wexford senior football team in 2005 when he received a four-week ban from the Laois GAC following an under-16 football league final between Portlaoise and Stradbally, which also led to Portlaoise senior club treasurer JP Cahillane receiving a six-month suspension for "verbal abuse and physical interference of the referee". Laois appointed Lillis as their senior football manager in 2015. After a defeat to Dublin in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilrush
Kilrush () is a coastal town in County Clare, Ireland. It is also the name of a civil parish and an ecclesiastical parish in Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. It is located near the mouth of the River Shannon in the south-west of the county. Kilrush is one of the listed Heritage Towns of Ireland. The area was officially classified as part of the West Clare Gaeltacht, an Irish-speaking community, until 1956. History Kilrush has existed since the 16th Century but an older church ruin at the local churchyard suggests a much older history. It is thought the name Cill Rois is derived from Church of the Wood, which would fit with the church ruins location. It was not until the 18th century that it underwent major development. This development coincided with the succession of John Ormsby Vandeleur as the wealthiest landlord in the district. Of Dutch origin, the Vandeleur family was the most prominent landlord family in West Clare. They designed the layout of the town and many of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan Daly (politician)
Brendan Daly (born 2 February 1940) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was a long-serving Teachta Dála (TD) for the Clare constituency, a government minister, and Senator. Daly was born in February 1940 in Cooraclare, County Clare, and educated locally at CBS Kilrush school. His political career began at the 1973 general election, when he was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD for Clare. He held his seat at six further general elections before losing it at the 1992 general election. He was returned at the 1997 general election but was defeated again in the 2002 general election. Daly was a strong supporter of Charles Haughey during his period as Fianna Fáil leader. In 1980 Daly became Minister of State at the Department of Labour. In 1982 he joined the Cabinet as Minister for Fisheries and Forestry. When Fianna Fáil returned to power after the 1987 general election he once again became a minister, this time as Minister for the Marine in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
