Dohenys is a

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club, fielding

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 ki ...

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 pla ...

teams in the town of

Dunmanway Dunmanway (, official Irish name: ) is a market town in County Cork, in the southwest of Ireland. It is the geographical centre of the region known as West Cork. It is the birthplace of Sam Maguire, an Irish Protestant republican, for whom the ...

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. It won its only

Cork Senior Club Football Championship The Cork Premier Senior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Bon Secours Cork Premier Senior Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork PSFC) is an annual club Gaelic football competition organised by the Cork Count ...

in 1897. Other titles won include 2

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 County ...

s in 1972 and 1995, and 3

Cork Junior Football Championship The Cork Junior A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Junior A Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork JAFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Cork County Board of ...

s in 1935, 1966, and 1993. In 2007, the club won its first ever county

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 pla ...

championship when it won the

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 Gaeli ...

. The club is part of the Carbery division of

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. The

Sam Maguire Cup The Sam Maguire Cup ( ga, Chorn Sam Mhic Uidhir), often referred to as Sam or The Sam , is a trophy awarded annually by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) to the team that wins the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the main competiti ...

which is presented to the All-Ireland winning football team each year is named after Dunmanway's most famous son, Sam Maguire who is buried in St. Mary's Graveyard.

History

Dohenys GAA club was founded in 1886. The first chairman of the club was a local national school teacher, John McCarthy. The club attended the first meeting of the Cork County Board and became the first affiliated club in west Cork. The official name adopted by the club was the Michael Doheny Football Club after the Tipperary

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Michael Doheny Michael Doheny (22 May 1805 – 1 April 1862Some references give 1862: ) was an Irish writer, lawyer, member of the Young Ireland movement, and co-founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an Irish secret society which would go on to launch ...

, who spent a short time in Dunmanway when on 'the run' in 1847. In 1897, the club won the

Cork Senior Football Championship The Cork Premier Senior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Bon Secours Cork Premier Senior Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork PSFC) is an annual club Gaelic football competition organised by the Cork Count ...

by defeating Wolf Tones of

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in the final. This team won its way through

Munster Senior Football Championship The Munster Senior Football Championship, known simply as the Munster Championship and shortened to Munster SFC, is an annual inter-county Gaelic football competition organised by the Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It ...

but was defeated by Kickhams of

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in the

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC) ( ga, Craobh Shinsir Peile na hÉireann) is the premier competition in Gaelic football. An annual tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), it is contested by the county ...

final at Jones’ Road, a game played in February 1899. Although no further senior title has been won the club has won

titles in 1972 and 1995, and

titles in 1935, 1966 and 1993. Many Carbery titles at all levels, in both football and hurling, have also been won.

Honours

Winners (1) 1897 Runners-Up 1898, 1903, 1975, 2006 *

Winners (2) 1972, 1995 Runners-Up 1923, 1936, 1938, 1969 *

Winners (3) 1935, 1966, 1993 Runners-Up 1898, 1959, 1965 *

Winners (1) 2006 Runners-Up 1996 * Cork Premier 2 Minor Football Championship (as Sam Maguires) Winners (1) 2010 * Cork Minor A Football Championship Runners-Up 1999 *

West Cork Junior A Hurling Championship The South West Junior A Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the RCM Tarmacadam Carbery Junior A Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Carbery Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 19 ...

Winners (4) 1958, 1959, 1963, 2013 Runners-Up 1936, 1937, 1938, 1960, 1974, 1975, 2010, 2011, 2012 *

West Cork Junior A Football Championship The Carbery Junior A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Bandon Co-op Carbery Junior A Football Championship) is an annual club Gaelic football competition organised by the Carbery Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association ...

(12): 1927, 1931, 1935, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1992, 1993 Runners-Up 1928, 1930, 1940, 1949, 1950, 1963, 1970, 1990 * West Cork Junior B Hurling Championship Winners (2) 1996, 1998 Runners-Up 1953, 1984, 2004 * West Cork Junior B Football Championship Winners (1) 2015 * West Cork Junior C Football Championship Winners (5) 1977, 1978, 1979, 1986, 1987 Runners-Up 1984, 1985, 1988, 1998 * West Cork Junior C Hurling Championship Runners-Up 1994 * West Cork Junior D Football Championship Winners (1) 1998 Runners-Up 2005, 2014 * West Cork Minor A Hurling Championship (as Sam Maguires) Winners (1) 1956 * West Cork Minor A Football Championship (as Sam Maguires) Winners (6) 1942, 1944, 1978, 1998, 1999, 2003 Runners-Up 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1986, 1989 * West Cork Minor B Hurling Championship (as Sam Maguires) Winners (5) 1990, 1994, 1996, 2003, 2009 Runners-Up 1982, 1985, 2006, 2014 * West Cork Minor C Hurling Championship (as Sam Maguires) Runners-Up 2001 * West Cork Under-21 Football Championship Winners (5) 1969, 1970, 1971, 2000, 2017 Runners-Up 1974, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2019 * West Cork Under-21 B Hurling Championship Winners (2) 1995, 2008 Runners-Up 1991, 1996, 2009, 2011 * West Cork Under-21 C Hurling Championship Runners-Up 2002, 2003

Notable players

* Liam Grainger *

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* Éamonn Young *

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References

External links

Official Dohenys Club website
{{Cork clubs Gaelic games clubs in County Cork Gaelic football clubs in County Cork Hurling clubs in County Cork