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Leitrim Minor Football Championship
The Leitrim Minor A Football Championship is a football competition between the top-tier teams in Minor Gaelic football in County Leitrim, Ireland. The Leitrim County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional ... has organised it since 1929. Melvin Gaels are the Minor A title holders (2016) defeating holders St Manchan's after a replay to win their first ever Minor A title. Lower-level teams play in the Leitrim Minor B Football Championship and up until 2012 the Minor C Football Championship, but due to rural teams amalgamating, the number of teams competing in the Minor A Football Championship has increased resulting in the removal of the C Championship. The trophy presented to the winners is the O'Dolan Cup. A Championship Wins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballinamore Seán O'Heslin's GAA
Ballinamore Seán O'Heslin's Gaelic Athletic Association is a Gaelic football, hurling and ladies' Gaelic football club based in Ballinamore, County Leitrim, Republic of Ireland. History The club was founded as ''Ballinamore'' in January 1889 in McGauran’s Railway Hotel. Unusually for a County Leitrim club, they have always fielded teams in both hurling and Gaelic football. Local schoolteacher Seán O'Heslin was a driving force behind the club in its early years; he died in 1942; Sean O’Heslin Memorial Park opened in 1952 and the club was renamed ''Ballinamore Seán O'Heslin's'' in his honour in 1953. The club won twenty one Leitrim Senior Football Championships between 1913 and 2021, but have not won it since; they last reached the final in 2021 where they won . O'Heslin's also reached the final of the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship on four occasions — 1968, 1973, 1986 and 1990 — losing each time. A ladies' Gaelic football team was founded in 2003. Camogi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballinamore Seán O'Heslin's
Ballinamore (, meaning "mouth of the big ford") is a small town in County Leitrim, Ireland. Etymology , corrupted ''Bellanamore'', means "town at the mouth of the big ford", so named because it was a main crossing (ford) of the Yellow River. The gaels called the baile Átha na Chuirre ("homestead of ford of the afflictions") because a hospital-house stood near the bridge in the 13th century. Location Ballinamore is in south county Leitrim, from County Fermanagh, and built on the 'Yellow River'. The R202 regional road intersects the R199 and R204 roads here. A historic barge waterway, built in the 1840s to connect the Erne and Shannon rivers, was reopened for boat traffic in 1994 as the Shannon–Erne Waterway. Ballinamore has daily Local-link bus services to Carrick on Shannon and Dromod railway station Monday to Saturday. History After the 5th century, the Conmaicne settled this area, displacing and absorbing an older tribe named the " Masraigh". These Conmhaícne an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaelic Football
Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kicking or punching the ball into the other team's goals (3 points) or between two upright posts above the goals and over a crossbar above the ground (1 point). Players advance the football up the field with a combination of carrying, bouncing, kicking, hand-passing, and soloing (dropping the ball and then toe-kicking the ball upward into the hands). In the game, two types of scores are possible: points and goals. A point is awarded for kicking or hand-passing the ball over the crossbar , signalled by the umpire raising a white flag. A goal is awarded for kicking the ball under the crossbar into the net (the ball cannot be hand-passed into the goal), signalled by the umpire raising a green flag. Positions in Gaelic football are similar to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Leitrim
County Leitrim ( ; gle, Contae Liatroma) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Connacht and is part of the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the village of Leitrim. Leitrim County Council is the local authority for the county, which had a population of 35,087 according to the 2022 census. The county encompasses the historic Gaelic territory of West Breffny () corresponding to the northern part of the county, and Muintir Eolais or Conmaicne Réin, corresponding to the southern part. Geography Leitrim is the 26th largest of the 32 counties by area (the 21st largest of the 26 counties of the Republic) and the smallest by population. It is the smallest of Connacht's five counties in both size and population. Leitrim is bordered by the counties of Donegal to the north, Fermanagh to the north-east, Cavan to the east, Longford to the south, Roscommon to the south-west and Sligo to the west. Fermanagh is in Northern Ireland while all the other neighbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leitrim GAA
The Leitrim County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) ( ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Coiste Chontae Liatroma) or Leitrim GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Leitrim. The county board is also responsible for the Leitrim inter-county teams. The county football team play in the Connacht Senior Football Championship and compete in Division 4 of the National Football League. Considered "Connacht's traditional minnows" and "one of the GAA's Cinderella counties",, Leitrim are never seriously seen as likely to win a major title. They have won the Connacht Senior Football Championship on two occasions, the first in 1927 and their second in 1994. Governance Enda Stenson became county chairman in December 2019. Finances In late-August 2022, it was reported that Leitrim GAA officials had requested funding from the Connacht Provincial Council and the GAA itself, ahead of the county's expected league and champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaelic Athletic Association
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, Gaelic handball and rounders. The association also promotes Irish music and dance, as well as the Irish language. As of 2014, the organisation had over 500,000 members worldwide, and declared total revenues of €65.6 million in 2017. The Games Administration Committee (GAC) of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) governing bodies organise the fixture list of Gaelic games within a GAA county or provincial councils. Gaelic football and hurling are the most popular activities promoted by the organisation, and the most popular sports in the Republic of Ireland in terms of attendances. Gaelic football is also the second most popular participation sport in Northern Ireland. The women' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohill GAA
Mohill GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association gaelic football club in Mohill, County Leitrim, Ireland. The parish of Mohill currently has two GAA Football Clubs, Mohill who play in Division 1 and the Senior Championship and Eslin who play in Division 2 and the Intermediate Championship. The Mohill Club also fields teams in Divisions 3 and Junior Championship and Division 4 and Junior B Championship. Both Clubs have won Senior Titles in the past and in fact Mohill Faugh-an-Bealaghs won the first Leitrim Senior Championship in 1890, defeating Ballinamore Ballinamore (, meaning "mouth of the big ford") is a small town in County Leitrim, Ireland. Etymology , corrupted ''Bellanamore'', means "town at the mouth of the big ford", so named because it was a main crossing (ford) of the Yellow River. T ... in the final. Eslin won their first title the following year by defeating Mohill in the final. They won the last of their three Titles in 1917 but have won several Junior Champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Mary's GAA (Leitrim)
St Mary's Kiltoghert, is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the parish of Kiltoghert, near Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, Ireland. The club was re-formed in March 1944. For 55 years, the club rented the Show Grounds on the Boyle Road. They have won 6 Leitrim Senior Football Championships in 1958, 1995, 2003, 2007, 2013 and 2022 they have also won a record 31 Leitrim Senior Hurling Championships including 4 in a row between 1992 and 1995 and 12 in a row between 1999 and 2010. Honours * Leitrim Senior Football Championship 6: **1958, 1995, 2003, 2007, 2013, 2022 * Leitrim Senior Hurling Championship 32: **1953, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2017 * Connacht Junior Club Hurling Championship 1: **2018 * Leitrim Intermediate Football Championship: 4 ** 1995, 1997, 2000, 2004 * Leitrim Junior Football Championship The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloone GAA
Cloone GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association Gaelic football club in Cloone, County Leitrim, Ireland. Cloone GAA was founded in 1906. The club amalgamated with Corduff around 1925/26 and with Riverstown around 1931/32. The club won the Leitrim Senior Football Championship The Leitrim Senior Football Championship is an annual football competition contested by top-tier Leitrim GAA clubs. The Leitrim County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1890. St Mary's, Kiltoghert are the titl ... eleven times between 1911 and 1980. Cloone currently compete in the Leitrim Junior A Football Championship. Honours References Gaelic football clubs in County Leitrim {{Connacht-GAA-club-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiltubrid GAA
Kiltubrid GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association Gaelic football club in Kiltubrid, County Leitrim, Ireland. Kilrubrid was originally founded on April 21st 1889, and was refounded 30th Jan 1978. The club has won the Leitrim Senior Football Championship The Leitrim Senior Football Championship is an annual football competition contested by top-tier Leitrim GAA clubs. The Leitrim County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1890. St Mary's, Kiltoghert are the titl ... once in 2005 beating Bornacoola on a scoreline of 4-11 to 0-07. They were runners up in 2007 losing to St. Mary's Kiltoghert. Kiltubrid currently compete in the Leitrim Intermediate Football Championship. Honours References External links Kiltubrid GAA Website Gaelic games clubs in County Leitrim Gaelic football clubs in County Leitrim {{Gaelic-football-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Gaels
Allen Gaels Gaelic Athletic Association is a Gaelic football and ladies' Gaelic football club based in Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, Ireland. History The first GAA club was founded in Drumshanbo in 1889, St Patrick's. It died and was revived several times. As St. Francis', they won the 1963 Leitrim Junior Football Championship. In 1969 Drumshanbo merged with Ballinaglera to form ''Allen Gaels'', taking their name from nearby Lough Allen. The club won two Leitrim Senior Hurling Championships in the 1970s. Ballinaglera left in 1981 to re-form their own club, but Drumshanbo continued with the "Allen Gaels" name. The club's peak came in 1991–2002, winning five senior football titles in twelve years. In 1997 Allen Gaels reached the final of the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship, losing to Corofin. Noel Moran, Padraig Kenny, and Colin McGlynn also played on the successful Leitrim team of that era. In 1999, Allen Gaels' grounds were renamed the Shane McGettigan Memorial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gortletteragh GAA
Gortletteragh are a Gaelic Athletic Association club from County Leitrim, Ireland. The club was founded in 1889 They have won Leitrim Senior Football Championship titles five times in 1905, 1970, 1981, 1985 and 1987, and Leitrim Senior Hurling Championship titles eleven times in 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1996, 1998 and 2011. Former All Star Full Back Seamus Quinn is the club's best known player. The club's Hurling team lost the senior final narrowly in 2010, while its U14 team recently won the Leitrim Féile for the first time. Honours * Leitrim Senior Football Championship: (5) ** 1905, 1970, 1981, 1985, 1987 * Leitrim Senior Hurling Championship: (11) ** 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1996, 1998, 2011 * Leitrim Intermediate Football Championship: (2) ** 2003, 2012 * Leitrim Junior Football Championship The Leitrim Junior A Football Championship is an annual football competition often contested by lower-tier or 2nd team Leitrim GA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
