Donaghcloney Mill Cricket Club is a
cricket
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club in
Donaghcloney
Donaghcloney or Donacloney ()[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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, playing in Section 1 of the
NCU Senior League
The Northern Cricket Union (NCU) Senior League is the provincial cricket league within the NCU jurisdiction in Ireland, which covers counties Antrim, Armagh, Down and south Tyrone of Northern Ireland. The league was formed in 1897 and is curre ...
.
It was formed in 2017, when Donacloney Cricket Club and the club merged with
Millpark Cricket Club
Millpark Cricket Club was a cricket club in Gilford, County Down, Northern Ireland, that last played in Section 2 of the NCU Senior League. The club, originally based at Millpark, an area located between Gilford and Banbridge
Banbridge ...
merged and adopted the name Donaghcloney Mill.
Donacloney had been founded by the Liddell family, proprietors of the William Liddell & Co. factory in the village of Donaghcloney. The Liddells were members of the
North of Ireland Cricket Club in
Belfast
Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdo ...
and decided to establish a club in Donaghcloney for the recreation of the factory workers.
About Donaghcloney Cricket Club
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Donaghcloney Cricket Club
Cricket clubs in County Down
NCU Senior League members
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