Castleknock Hurling and Football Club is a

Dublin GAA The Dublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) ( ga, Cumann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Contae Átha Cliath) or Dublin GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in the Dublin Regi ...

club centered on the

townland A townland ( ga, baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of Gaelic origi ...

s of Carpenterstown and Diswellstown in the

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Castleknock Castleknock () is an affluent suburb located west of the centre of Dublin city, Ireland. It is centered on the village of the same name in Fingal. In addition to the suburb, the name "Castleknock" also refers to older units of land division: ...

Fingal Fingal ( ; ) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the province of Leinster and is part of the Eastern and Midland Region. It is one of three successor counties to County Dublin, which was disestablished for administrative purposes in 1994. ...

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 ...

. It serves large parts of the suburban areas of

, Hartstown,

Coolmine Coolmine () is a primarily residential suburb of Dublin, Ireland, in the jurisdiction of Fingal. It is also a townland in the civil parish of Clonsilla. Location and access Coolmine is located between the suburban areas of Blanchardstown (to ...

Blanchardstown Blanchardstown () is a large outer suburb of Dublin in the modern Counties of Ireland, county of Fingal, Ireland. Located northwest of Dublin city centre, it has developed since the 1960s from a small village to a point where Greater Blanchards ...

, Laurel Lodge and

Clonsilla Clonsilla () is an outer suburb of Dublin in Fingal, Ireland. Clonsilla is also a civil parish in the barony of Castleknock in the historic County Dublin. Location and access Clonsilla used to be a small village in the inner western part o ...

. The club plays the following

Gaelic games Gaelic games ( ga, Cluichí Gaelacha) are a set of sports played worldwide, though they are particularly popular in Ireland, where they originated. They include Gaelic football, hurling, Gaelic handball and rounders. Football and hurling, the ...

at all age levels from nursery to adult:

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

and

Ladies' Gaelic football Ladies' Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach na mBan) is a women's team sport. It is the women's equivalent of Gaelic football. Ladies' football is organised by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association. Two teams of 15 players kick or hand-pass a ...

. It has a rivalry with the St Brigid's club.

Grounds

The club's main grounds are located at Somerton Lane, Diswellstown. It also uses grounds managed by

Fingal County Council Fingal County Council ( ga, Comhairle Contae Fhine Gall) is the authority responsible for local government in the county of Fingal, Ireland. It is one of three local authorities that comprised the former Dublin County Council before its abolit ...

at Porterstown, St.Catherine's Park and "Tir na nÓg" (beside

Castleknock Community College Castleknock Community College, is an Ireland, Irish secondary school located on Carpenterstown Road in Castleknock, Fingal in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Established in 1995, the school is overseen by the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education a ...

History

The club's first major discovery was a then five-year-old

Ciarán Kilkenny Ciarán Kilkenny (born 7 July 1993) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for the Dublin county team and as a dual player for his club Castleknock. He was previously on the playing list of Australian rules football club Hawthorn, as a rook ...

, whom it invited to participate in its "Tir na nÓg" sessions in 1998. The club began life in the tenth tier of the

Dublin Senior Football Championship The Dublin Senior Football Championship (currently known for sponsorship reasons as the '' Go-Ahead'' Dublin Senior Football Championship) is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association competition between the top Dublin GAA clubs. The winners of the ...

, later rising to the top tier. The club won the National Féile in 2007 and recently 2016 and 2017. The club has teams from juvenile to senior level. It has 1500 members from 650 different families.Castleknock about us A clubhouse worth about €1.5 million was about to be opened in 2019, as Kilkenny was winning All-Ireland titles around him. The man who opened it,

Leo Varadkar Leo Eric Varadkar ( ; born 18 January 1979) is an Irish politician who has served as Taoiseach since December 2022, and previously from 2017 to 2020. He served as Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment from June 2020 to De ...

, was

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and had nephews playing for the club at the time. Lar Norton is the coach of the Castleknock senior footballers. Maria Bergin from

Naas Naas ( ; ga, Nás na Ríogh or ) is the county town of County Kildare in Ireland. In 2016, it had a population of 21,393, making it the second largest town in County Kildare after Newbridge. History The name of Naas has been recorded in th ...

is the club's full-time "games promotion officer", paid by the Dublin County Board to visit local schools and inculcate the children she finds there into football and hurling. She runs a nursery for four to seven year-olds each Saturday morning in Carpenterstown to the west of Castleknock.

Honours

Runners up 2016 *

Leinster Junior Club Football Championship The Leinster Junior Club Football Championship is a Gaelic football competition between the winners of the Junior football competitions in 10 counties of Leinster, the Intermediate football champions of Kilkenny, the Intermediate football runners- ...

Winners 2012 *

Dublin Junior Football Championship The Dublin Junior Football championship is the Junior Gaelic Athletic Association Gaelic football competition of Dublin. The winners of the Junior championship go on to qualify for the Dublin Intermediate Football Championship. The winners will ...

Winners 2012 *

Dublin Junior Hurling Championship The Dublin Junior Hurling championship is the Junior Gaelic Athletic Association hurling competition of Dublin. The winners of the Junior championship go on to qualify for the Dublin Intermediate Hurling Championship in the following year. The win ...

Winners 2013 * Leinster Special Junior Hurling Championship Winners (1) 2013 *

Dublin Intermediate Football Championship ''See also Dublin Senior Football Championship'' The Dublin Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association competition organised by Dublin GAA between second-tier Gaelic football clubs in County Dublin, Ireland. Qua ...

Winners 2014 *

Dublin Intermediate Hurling Championship Dublin Intermediate Hurling Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the Intermediate Dublin Clubs. The finalists of this Championship qualify for the Dublin Senior Hurling B Championship the following seas ...

Winners 2015 * Dublin Under 21 C Football Championship Winners 2011 * Feile Division 1 Football All Ireland Championship Winners 2016 * Feile Division 1 Hurling All Ireland Championship Winners 2007 * Dublin Minor A Football Championship Winners 2011, 2019 * Dublin Senior Football League Division 2 Winners 2015 * Dublin AFL Div. 4 Winners 2012 * Dublin AFL Div. 5 Winners 2011 * Dublin AFL Div. 10 Winners 2015 * Dublin Junior F Hurling Championship Winners 2010 * Dublin Junior B Hurling Championship Winners 2006 * Dublin Junior B+ Hurling Championship Winners 2004 * Dublin Junior D Hurling Championship Winners 2003 * Dublin Minor B Hurling Championship Winners 2009 * Dublin Minor C Hurling Championship Winners 2017 * Dublin Minor D Hurling Championship Winners 2012

References

External links

* Gaelic games clubs in Fingal Gaelic football clubs in Fingal Hurling clubs in Fingal Castleknock {{Dublin-GAA-club-stub