The Carlow County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) ( ga, Cumann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Ceatharlach) or Carlow GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for

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County Carlow County Carlow ( ; ga, Contae Cheatharlach) is a county located in the South-East Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster. Carlow is the second smallest and the third least populous of Ireland's 32 traditional counties. Carlow Cou ...

and the Carlow county teams. The Carlow county football team play in the Leinster Senior Football Championship and in

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of the Allianz Football League for 2019. The Carlow county hurling team compete in the

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, the second tier of the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, and in Division 1B of the

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in 2019.

Football

Clubs

Clubs contest the Carlow Senior Football Championship. That competition's most successful club is Éire Óg, with 29 titles. Carlow clubs have a decent record in the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. Éire Óg has five Leinster titles, while O'Hanrahans has one. Éire Óg was deprived of the All-Ireland club title in 1993 by Cork's O'Donovan Rossa of Skibbereen. The club was defeated by 1-7 to 0-8 after a replay in Limerick, after being controversially denied a winning goal in injury time. The team had to make do with immortality of a different kind; they are seen togged out in 1920-style kit, posing as the Tipperary Bloody Sunday team in Neil Jordan's film '' Michael Collins'', against a Kilmacud Crokes team filling in as

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County team

The county team won a Leinster Senior Football Championship (SFC) in 1944. The final was played in

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due to the war and Carlow defeated

by a scoreline of 2–6 to 1–6. Carlow also lost Leinster SFC finals in 1941 and 1942 to the same opposition. Kerry fisherman-publican Paddy Bawn Brosnan kept Carlow from reaching an All-Ireland SFC final in 1944. His second-half goal put Carlow out of the All-Ireland semi-final by a scoreline of 3–3 to 0–10. Ten years later Carlow reached the National League final with a famous 1–10 to 1–7 win against

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, but were well beaten by Mayo in the final. Carlow won the 1994 All-Ireland B Senior Football Championship, and an O'Byrne Cup in

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. The team defeated Wicklow by a scoreline of 2–10 to 0–8. Other significant performances include reaching the Leinster Minor Football Championship final in 2007, when the team lost to Laois. The Carlow Vocational Schools team won the VEC All Ireland Championship in 1973, while Carlow CBS won an All-Ireland B title at

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in 2015. An under-21 team came within a point of defeating Dublin in 1984.

Hurling

Clubs

Clubs contest the Carlow Senior Hurling Championship. That competition's most successful club is

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, with 27 titles. In 2013,

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shocked the hurling world by winning the Leinster Club Hurling Championship, defeating Ballyboden St Enda's of Dublin in the semi-final and Oulart the Ballagh of Wexford in the final. The following February, the club defeated 2012 champions Loughgiel Shamrocks to reach the All-Ireland final. Portuma defeated Mount Leinster Rangers in that game.

County team

Carlow have won three Christy Ring Championships. After losing the 2006 final to Antrim at

, they beat Westmeath in a classic final (after extra time) by 3–22 to 4–16 in 2008. This was their first "Division 2" win since 1992 and their first in the re-arranged All-Ireland structure which saw four divisions in hurling from 2009. They repeated the feat the following year, defeating Down at Croke Park to win a two in a row and earn automatic promotion to tier one for 2010. They played at this level until 2016 which saw them relegated from the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship. The very next year, however, they won the

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for a record equalling third time, gaining promotion to the top tier of hurling once again. Carlow's last appearance in a Leinster Senior Hurling Championship semi-final was in 1993, when

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defeated them by 18 points.

Camogie

Carlow won the

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in 2007 and in 2012. They won the Nancy Murray Cup in 2015. They won both the All Ireland Minor C championship and Under-16 C championship in 2010. Naomh Moling won Division 3 at the Féile na nGael in 1991 and Kildavin Division 5 in 1995. Under Camogie's National Development Plan 2010-2015, "Our Game, Our Passion", Carlow,

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, Laois, Louth and Roscommon were to get a total of 17 new clubs by 2015. Carlow won the Premier Junior Camogie All-Ireland title in 2016, defeating Armagh 4-10 to 2-07.

Ladies' football

Carlow has a ladies' football team.

References

External links

Club Carlow - Website of the Carlow Supporters ClubCarlow on Hoganstand.comNational and provincial titles won by Carlow teamsClub championship winnersCarlow GAA site
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