St Joseph's GAA Club, Ballycran is a
Gaelic Athletic Association club located in Rubane,
County Down
County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 531,665. It borders County Antrim to the ...
,
Northern Ireland. The club is exclusively concerned with
hurling
Hurling ( ga, iománaíocht, ') is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of p ...
and camogie. The club competes in
Down GAA competitions and in Division 1 of the
Antrim Hurling League. The Club's grounds are called 'McKenna Park' and house the John Mallon Stand (capacity 5,000). McKenna Park is the home ground for the county hurlers. They are designated as The Kings of Down hurling
Achievements
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Down Senior Hurling Championships: 27 ‘'
** 1949, 1953, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1967, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2018, 2019,
2021
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Ulster Senior Club Hurling Championships: 3
** 1974, 1976, 1993
Notable players
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Greg Blaney
Greg Blaney is an Irish dual player who played Gaelic football and hurling for Down in the 1980s and 1990s. He was part of the Down team that won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in 1991 and 1994. Blaney won three Ulster Senior Fo ...
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Gary Savage
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Noel Keith
Noel or Noël may refer to:
Christmas
* , French for Christmas
* Noel is another name for a Christmas carol
Places
*Noel, Missouri, United States, a city
*Noel, Nova Scotia, Canada, a community
* 1563 Noël, an asteroid
*Mount Noel, British ...
References
External links
Down GAA siteBallycran web siteBallycran Facebook page
Gaelic games clubs in County Down
Hurling clubs in County Down
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