Inniskeen Grattans Gaelic Athletic 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, based in

Inniskeen Inniskeen, officially Inishkeen (), is a small village, townland and parish in County Monaghan, Ireland, close to the County Louth and County Armagh borders. The village is located about from Dundalk, from Carrickmacross, and from Crossmaglen ...

County Monaghan County Monaghan ( ; ga, Contae Mhuineacháin) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Ulster and is part of Border strategic planning area of the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town of Monaghan. Monaghan County Cou ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

. The club participates in both

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

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 p ...

competitions organized by

Monaghan GAA The Monaghan County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) ( ga, Cumann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Mhuineacháin) or Monaghan GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Monaghan a ...

county board. In 2010, the club won its first ever

Monaghan Senior Hurling Championship The Monaghan Senior Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition contested by top-tier Monaghan GAA clubs. The Monaghan County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1909. Castleblayney Hurling Club are the t ...

title.

History

Inniskeen Grattans was founded in 1883 and is the oldest GAA club in County Monaghan. It was founded one year before the

was founded in Thurles. In 1888, the first

County Championship The County Championship (referred to as the LV= Insurance County Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). It bec ...

was held. The final between Inniskeen Grattans and

Carrickmacross Emmets Carrickmacross Emmets is a Gaelic football club from Carrickmacross in County Monaghan in Ireland. The club was founded in 1887. The club participates in Monaghan competitions. The club has won the Monaghan Senior Football Championship eight ti ...

, was won by Inniskeen by 0-7 to 0-0. In August 1888, Inniskeen played

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champions Maghera Mac Finns in the first

Ulster Senior Football Championship The Ulster Senior Football Championship is an inter-county competition for Gaelic football teams in the province of Ulster. It is organised by the Ulster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and begins in early May. The final is usu ...

Final in

Drogheda Drogheda ( , ; , meaning "bridge at the ford") is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, north of Dublin. It is located on the Dublin–Belfast corridor on the east coast of Ireland, mostly in County Louth ...

which ended in a draw, 0-2 each. Inniskeen won the replay in Drogheda on 9 December by 0-3 to 0-1 making Monaghan the first ever Ulster S.F. champions.

Notable players

Patrick Kavanagh Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 – 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist. His best-known works include the novel '' Tarry Flynn'', and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger". He is known for his accounts of Irish life t ...

, poet, novelist

Honours

Football

Monaghan Senior Football Championship The Monaghan Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by Monaghan GAA clubs. The Monaghan County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1888. Ballybay Pearse Brothers are the title ...

s: ** 1888, 1905, 1938, 1947, 1948 *

Monaghan Intermediate Football Championship The Monaghan Intermediate Football Championship (often referred to as the Monaghan IFC for short or the McElvaney's Waste & Recycling Intermediate Football Championship for sponsorship reasons) is an annual Gaelic football competition contested ...

: (4) ** 1994, 2000, 2005, 2014 *

Ulster Intermediate Club Football Championship The Ulster Intermediate Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football tournament played between the hundreds of intermediate football clubs in Ulster. There are nine county championships between the nine counties of Ulster. The nine winn ...

(1) ** 2006 *

All-Ireland Intermediate Club Football Championship The All-Ireland Intermediate Club Football Championship is an annual gaelic football competition which began in 2003. The winners of the Intermediate Club Championship from each county enter the competition. Finals by year Winners by County S ...

: (1) ** 2006 * Monaghan Junior Football Championship: ** 1983 * Monaghan Junior B Football Championship: 1967, 1994 * Monaghan Minor Football Championship: 1964, 2018 * Owen Ward Cup: 1945, 1947, 1949, 1958 * Fr. Hackett Cup: 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1959, 1960, 1985, 2000, 2003 * Dr. Ward Cup: 1980, 1981 * Brennan Cup: 1961 * Monaghan Junior C Championship (P. Kieran Cup): 1982, 1983 * Monaghan Junior C League (Crawley Cup): 1999 * Hugh Brady Cup: 1985, 1994, 2004, 2008 * Kerley Cup (Under-21 Football): 1982, 2007 * Treanor Cup (Minor Football): 1980, 1999 * Fr. Maguire Cup (Minor Football League Div.1): 1949, 1964 * Monaghan Minor Football Championship Div. 2: 2003 * Mc Cormack Cup (Under-16 Football, Div. 2): 1980, 1999 * Clancy Cup (Under-15 Football, Div. 1): 1981 * Lee Bros Cup (Under-15 Football, Div. 2): 1984, 1985, 1994, 1999 * McHugh Cup (Under-14 Football, Div. 2): 1978, 1979, 1980, 1987,1999 * McGrane Cup (Under-13 Football, Div. 2): 1996 * Conlon Cup (Under-13 Football Div 2): 1995, 2005(Div. 3) * Club Players Football League: 1969 * Monaghan Creamery Cup (Under-12 Football, Div. 2): 1978, 1980 * Primary Schools League: Scoil Cholmcille, Blackstaff – 1975, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1988, 1999.St. Daig’s, Inniskeen – 1991.

Hurling

: 2010, 2013, 2016 * Monaghan Senior Hurling League: 2006, 2010 * Monaghan Reserve Hurling League: 2004, 2005, 2009 * Monaghan Minor Hurling Shield: 2001, 2004 * Jim O’Rourke Cup: 1999 * Monaghan Under-14 Hurling League: 1997 * Ulster Under-13 Hurling Blitz: 1997 * Monaghan Under-13 Hurling League: 1996, 1997 * Monaghan Under-12 Hurling League: 1995 * Monaghan Under-11 Hurling Blitz: 1994

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