Buttevant GAA club is a

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 ...

club located in the town of

Buttevant Buttevant ( or ''Ecclesia Tumulorum'' in the Latin) is a medieval market town, incorporated by charter of Edward III of England, Edward III, situated in North County Cork, Ireland. While there may be reason to suggest that the town may occup ...

County Cork County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

. The club was founded in 1884 and fields teams in both

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 kic ...

and

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 ...

. 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' All-Ireland winning fullback Batt Thornhill. Other players from the club to wear the Red and White of Cork included dual star Billy Mackessey (who won All Ireland Hurling and football in 1903 and 1911), Peter 'Hawker' O'Grady (who won an All Ireland Hurling medal in the 1930s), and Tommy O'Sullivan (who scored the winning goal in the 1952 All Ireland Hurling final and collected another All Ireland medal in 1953). Other success at adult level came in 1996 when the Hurlers won the Cork County Junior B title. In the 1960s, the juvenile section of the club was formed and several North Cork titles were won in both codes. This included Football County Titles in U14 and U16 in the 1970s, with U16 and Minor Titles coming the club's way in the 1980s. The work done at this level continued when a separate Juvenile Club Micheal MacCarthaigh's was formed in 1994 - named after former player and soldier Michael McCarthy who lost his life on UN duty in the Lebanon in 1991. A strong Junior Team in both codes emerged in recent years, with the Hurlers winning the Club's first North Cork Junior Hurling A title in 2010 and the Junior Footballers contesting, and losing to Mitchelstown, the Club's first North Cork Junior final in 2013. The Minor A footballers got to the county final in 2013, losing to Castlehaven and then gaining this honor two years later when the side beat Macroom in October 2015.

Honours

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 ...

(1): 1940 Runners-Up 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1941 *

Cork Intermediate Football Championship The Cork Intermediate A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as Bon Secours Cork County Intermediate A Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork IAFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Cork Count ...

(1): 1926 *

Cork Junior B Hurling Championship The Cork Junior B Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Junior B Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork JBHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Cork County Board of the Gael ...

Winners (1): 1996 Runners-Up 1989 1994 * Cork Junior B Football Championship Runners-Up 1984, 1991 * Cork Minor Hurling Championship: Runners-Up 1955, 1983 * North Cork Premier Minor Football Winners (1) 1978 * North Cork Premier Minor Hurling Winners (1) 1983 * North Cork Premier Minor hurling Winners (1) 1984. * Cork Minor B Hurling Championship: Runners-Up 2004 * North Cork Minor A Football Champions: Winners (2) 2013, 2015 *

North Cork Junior A Hurling Championship The North Cork Junior A Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Hibernian Hotel Junior A Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Avondhu Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1925 fo ...

: Winners (1) 2010 *

North Cork Junior A Football Championship The North Cork Junior A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Synergy Fermoy Credit Union Junior Football Championship) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Avondhu GAA, Avondhu Board of the Gaelic Athl ...

: Winners (1) 2017 Runners-Up 2013 * Cork County Minor A Football Championship: Winners (1): 2015 Runners-Up 2013

Notable players

Batt Thornhill Bartholomew Thornhill (1 January 1911 – 16 October 1970), better known as Batt Thornhill, was an Irish hurler. A long-time member of the Buttevant club, he was also a four-time All-Ireland Championship winner with the Cork senior hurling t ...

References

External links

Buttevant GAA site
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