Crumlin 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 in

Crumlin, Dublin Crumlin () is a Southside suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Formerly a rural area, it became heavily built up from the early 20th century onwards. Crumlin is the site of Ireland's largest children's hospital, Our Lady's Children's Hospital. Location ...

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Origins of the game in Crumlin

As far back as the 1740s Hurling was to be seen in Crumlin. The village was bordered by an area of "Common Land". The most important game recorded at Crumlin Common was in 1748, between hurlers representing Leinster and Munster, a game which Leinster won by a late goal.

Club history

Crumlin Independents were set up in the early 1900s and lasted until 1935. St. Agnes’s Football Club was set up in 1932, to be followed by St. Columba’s Hurling Club in 1945. These two clubs catered for their respective games until the end of 1969, when they amalgamated to form Crumlin Hurling and Football Club. In late 1979 a new addition to the club took place when it was joined by Cúchulainn

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 ...

Club, which had operated in the area since 1967. In 2007 the Club was renamed Crumlin GAA Club.

Facilities

Club playing pitches are located in Willie Pearse Park in Crumlin Village, and the clubhouse, which was opened in 1983 is located at Lorcan O'Toole Park.

Camogie

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club won the

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship The All-Ireland Club Camogie Championship is a competition for club teams in the Irish women’s field sport of camogie. It is contested by the senior club champions of the leading counties and organised by An Cumann Camógaíochta. Trophy The ...

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, defeating Athenry by 4-8 to 3-2 in the final. . The club was founded in 1966 by Phil Barry, Nuala Dunphy and Jeanne Quigley, and was originally known as the Cuchulainns Club. 978-1-908591-00-5 In 1980, the club joined up with the local Crumlin GAA club and, for some time, were known as Crumlin Cuchulainn. They club drew heavily on the players of the successful Assumption, Walkinstown, winners of Leinster post-primary schools titles.

Honours

Dublin Senior Hurling Championship The Dublin Senior Hurling Championship ( ga, Craobh Sinsear Iomána Átha Cliath) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Dublin GAA, Dublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (Gaelic Athletic Association, GAA) since 1887 f ...

Winners 1978 and 1979 *

Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship The Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the AIB Leinster GAA Hurling Senior Club Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association and conte ...

Winners 1979 *

Dublin Minor Football Championship The Dublin Minor Football Championship "A" is a Gaelic Athletic Association competition organised by Dublin GAA between the top teams in minor (under-18) Gaelic football in County Dublin "Action to match our speech" , image_map ...

Winners 1976 *

Dublin Minor Hurling Championship The Dublin Minor Club Hurling Championship is a Gaelic Athletic Association competition between the top teams in minor club hurling in County Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a ...

Winners 1976 *

Dublin Under 21 Hurling Championship The Dublin Under 21 Hurling Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the under-21 hurlers of Dublin clubs. The current (2017) under 21 champions of Dublin are Na Fianna who beat Ballyboden St Enda's 2-17 ...

Winners 1986, 1987 *

All Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship The All-Ireland Club Camogie Championship is a competition for club teams in the Irish women’s field sport of camogie. It is contested by the senior club champions of the leading counties and organised by An Cumann Camógaíochta. Trophy The ...

Winners 1985 *

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 2006 *

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 2006 and 2007 * Leinster League Division 2 Hurling Championship Winners 2011 Crumlin where the only

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team to win the

until Cuala in 2016

Current teams

In terms of Adult games, Crumlin currently have three Hurling teams (Senior, Intermediate and Junior),two Football Teams (Intermediate and Junior,)an Intermediate Camogie team, and a newly formed Ladies Football team. In addition, the club has a thriving juvenile section, with children from 8 year upwards playing Hurling, Football and Camogie.

Notable members

* Brian McMahon from Crumlin was, in 1990, the last Dublin hurler to get an All Star award until Alan McCrabbe was awarded an All Star in 2009. * In 2007 former Dublin Hurling Manager, the late

Jimmy Boggan Jimmy Boggan (August 1938 – 6 February 2009) was a mentor for the Dublin hurling team when they won the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship in 1965. Jim, as he was known within Crumlin, was a member of Crumlin GAA club in south County Dub ...

, was awarded the inaugural Dublin Hurling Hall of Fame Award for a lifetime contribution to Dublin Hurling. * Pat Ryan was a member of the football team that defeated Galway in the 1983 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.

References

External links

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Official Dublin GAA Website
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