Erin's Own Gaelic Athletic Club, Cargin is a sports club based in

Toome Toome or Toomebridge () is a small village and townland on the northwest corner of Lough Neagh in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies in the civil parish of Duneane in the former barony of Toome Upper, and is in the Antrim and Newtownabbe ...

County Antrim County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, ) is one of six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and has a population o ...

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...

. It competes in the Antrim leagues and championships of the

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 ...

, in

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 ...

and

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 ...

History

A club based in Toome, Lámh Dearg, won the 1923 Antrim Senior Football Championship. Erin's Own was founded in 1928, but the "1923" on the club crest refers to the earlier club. The club played the first "official" games of

rounders Rounders is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams. Rounders is a striking and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a rounded end wooden, plastic, or metal bat. The players score by running aroun ...

in Ireland in June 1958.

Honours

* Antrim Senior Football Championship (11) **1974, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2006, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 *Antrim Intermediate Football Championship (2) **2001, 2002 *Antrim Junior Football Championship (2) **1953, 1991 *Antrim Under-21 Football Championship (3) **2006, 2008, 2010 *Antrim Minor Football Championship (5) **1975, 1991, 2000, 2019, 2020 *Antrim Reserve Football Championship (9) **1998, 2005, 2007,2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2017 *Antrim Junior Hurling Championship (1) **1937 * South West Antrim U-14 League (1) **1999, 2002, 2019 * South West Antrim U-16 League (2) **2002, 2016 * South West Antrim U-16 Shield (2) ** 2004, 2005 * All Ireland Senior Mens Rounders (4) **1977, 1987, 1988, 1989 * South West Antrim U-14 Feile (2) **2018, 2019

References

External links

Official site
Gaelic games clubs in County Antrim Camogie clubs in County Antrim Hurling clubs in County Antrim Gaelic football clubs in County Antrim {{Ulster-GAA-club-stub