Castlewellan GAC (also known as St Malachy's GAC, or in
Irish
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, CLG Naomh Maolmhoig Caisleán a' Mhuilinn) 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 in
Castlewellan,
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
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. The club promotes the Gaelic Games of Hurling, Football, Camogie and other cultural and social pursuits.
History
The club was founded in 1905 and recently celebrated its centenary year in 2005.
Achievements
Notable players
* Pat Rice Member of the Down Senior team and won an Ulster & All-Ireland medal in 1960 & 1961. He also won a Down Senior Championship medals in 1965.
* Colm McAlarney was a member of the Down Senior team from the 1960s until the 1980s. McAlarney is the only player to have won Railway Cup winners' medals in each of three decades. Colm was center back on the Down minor team that lost the All-Ireland Minor Final in 1966. He played midfield for the All-Ireland winning Down senior team of 1968, who defeated Kerry in the final. He was awarded man of the match for his performance in the 1968 All-Ireland final. All Stars in 1975 & 1978. He also won two Down Senior Championship medals in 1979 & 1982.
* Mickey McVeigh played for
Down 1995-2007 2 Irish News Ulster All- stars team of the decade 1994-2004 won Railway cups with ulster. He also won two Down Senior Championship medals in 1994 & 1995.
* Martin Laverty captained the Down minors & U21 Teams. Member of the Down Senior team and won an Ulster & All-Ireland medal in 1991. He also won two Down Senior Championship medals in 1994 & 1995.
* Kevan Owens Member of the Down Senior team and won an Ulster & All-Ireland medal in 1991. He also won two Down Senior Championship medals in 1994 & 1995.
* Gerard Lych Member of the Down Senior team and won an Ulster & All-Ireland medal in 1991
* Ciaran McCabe Member of the Down Senior team and won an Ulster & All-Ireland medal in 1994. He also won two Down Senior Championship medals in 1994 & 1995.
* Gergroy McCartan from Ballymartin but moved to Castlewellan won an All-Ireland in 1991 & 1994 & all-Star 1994 Irish News Ulster All-Stars 1996
* Kevin Duffin All Ireland Minor medal winner 2005. Irish News All Star 2015
* Daniel Morgan Club Down All Star 2015
* Aidan Burns played for Down 2012, 2013. Irish News and Club Down All Star winner 2015
* Michael Cunningham former Down Goalkeeper
See also
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Down Senior Club Football Championship
The Down Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by top-tier Down GAA clubs. The Down County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1903.
Kilcoo are the title holders (2022) def ...
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List of Gaelic Athletic Association clubs
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* List of Gaelic games clubs in Ireland
* List of Gaelic games clubs outside Ireland
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An Riocht
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Bredagh GAC
Bredagh GAC is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in County Down, Northern Ireland. It fields teams at all levels from U8 to Senior in Men's and Ladies Gaelic football, Hurling and Camogie. It had its previous pitch, Bredagh Park, taken off them i ...
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Clonduff GAC
Clonduff GAC is a Gaelic Athletic Association club, based in Hilltown County Down, Northern Ireland. It represents the 2 areas that make up the Clonduff parish, namely Hilltown and Cabra.
History
Press reports show the history of Gaelic footba ...
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Kilcoo GAC
Kilcoo Owen Roes (Irish: Eoghan Rúa Cill Chua) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Kilcoo, County Down, Northern Ireland.
They are the most successful club in the Down Senior Football Championship having won it 19 times. The club has ...
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Liatroim Fontenoys GAC
Liatroim Fontenoys is a Gaelic Athletic Association Club in County Down, Northern Ireland. The club promotes hurling, Gaelic football, and camogie.
History
Liatroim Fontenoys, a small rural club in County Down, founded in the village wit ...
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Longstone GAC
Longstone GAC is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Annalong, County Down, Northern Ireland. Set at the foot of the Mourne Mountains in the Lower Mourne parish, the club caters for Gaelic Football, Camogie, and more recently Ladies' Gaelic Foo ...
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John Mitchel GFC
John Mitchel GFC is a Gaelic Athletic Association club, established in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, in 1956, and is called after the Irish Patriot John Mitchel. The club had the audacious ambition of winning the Down Senior Football ...
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Newry Bosco GFC
Newry Bosco GFC are a Gaelic Athletic Association gaelic football club from Newry, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
Although the club plays its home games at Jack Mackin Park which is in County Armagh, Bosco plays in the South Down league.
H ...
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Warrenpoint GAA
St Peter's GAA ( ga, Cumann Pheadair Naofa) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Foundation
The GAA in Warrenpoint pre-dates St Peter's by a considerable span of years for it was in 1888 that the ...
External links
Official Castlewellan GAA Club websiteOfficial An Riocht GAA Club websiteOfficial Down County website
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Gaelic games clubs in County Down
Gaelic football clubs in County Down
Hurling clubs in County Down