Ann Carroll is a

camogie Camogie ( ; ga, camógaíocht ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game of hurling (which is played by men onl ...

player. twice an All Ireland inter-county medalist and the outstanding personality in the first decade of the history of the

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship The All-Ireland Club Camogie Championship is a competition for club teams in the Irish women’s field sport of camogie. It is contested by the senior club champions of the leading counties and organised by An Cumann Camógaíochta. Trophy The t ...

winning medals with both St Patrick’s, Glengoole from Tipperary and St Paul’s from Kilkenny. She played inter-county camogie for both Tipperary and Kilkenny and Interprovincial camogie for both Munster and Leinster.

Tipperary career

She played senior inter-county and inter-provincial

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campogie while still at school in St Brigid's, Callan, with whom she won three Stuart Cup medals and played in five consecutive secondary schools Leinster championships. She won her first Interprovincial medal in 1963, scored a dramatic winning point for Munster in the 1964

final, and won a third with Munster again in 1966. The star of UCD’s

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winning team in 1966, she scored 1–4 in Dublin’s 3–5 to 2–4 victory over Cork in the final and ten of UCD’s 17 goals against Queen’s University in the semi-final. She was Tipperary camogie player of the year in 1966. She won two All Ireland club medals with St Patrick’s, Glengoole in 1965 and 1966

Kilkenny career

When her family moved to Kilkenny she won four more All Ireland club medals with St Paul’s in 1969, 1970–1, 1974-5 and 1976–7. In the 1968 Leinster club final she scored eight goals for St Paul’s against

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. With Kilkenny she won All Ireland senior medals in 1974 and 1976. She won three more Interprovincial medals in 1970, 1971 and 1972.

Ulster

She played in goal for Donegal in the 1980 junior championship.

Other activities

In 1971 she was founding editor of the first magazine to be dedicated to camogie.Irish Times. 5 March 1971, p17: Magazine has lot to offer IN 1977 with Mary Moran she was co-author of the first camogie coaching manual.

Trophy

In the absence of a trophy for the All Ireland club championship, her father Bill donated the Bill Carroll Cup which is competed for annually by Ireland’s leading camogie clubs.

References

External links

Camogie.ie
Official Camogie Association Website * Wikipedia List of Camogie players {{DEFAULTSORT:Carroll, Ann Kilkenny camogie players Tipperary camogie players Living people Year of birth missing (living people) UCD camogie players