Kilbrittain GAA 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 the parish of

Kilbrittain Kilbrittain or Killbrittain () is the name of a village, townland and parish in County Cork, Ireland. The village lies about southwest of Bandon, and near Courtmacsherry and Timoleague. The coastal route around the edge of the parish is the R6 ...

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. The club fields teams 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

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 ...

, but is primarily known for hurling. The club participates in

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

competitions. The club is a member of

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division of

History

Kilbrittain GAA club was founded in 1904. It has been primarily a hurling club throughout its history, though it did play in the

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 ...

final in 1926. Hurling has always been the first sport in the parish. From the beginning, especially in the 1920s, the club had some successes in the

South-West The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each se ...

division, winning 6 titles in a row and again in 1930, 1938, 1940, 1941 and 1942. In 1978, after a lapse of 36 years, the club won the Flyer Nyhan Cup or the South-West Junior Hurling Championship. The club were beaten by Kinsale in the subsequent

Cork Junior Hurling Championship The Cork Junior A Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Junior A Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork JAHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Cork County Board of the Gael ...

. In 1984, Kilbrittain reached the final of the

only to be defeated by

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. The following year, 1985, Kilbrittain defeated Cobh in the final to win its first county title in 81 years. In 1994, the

divisional team won the

Cork Senior Hurling Championship The Cork Premier Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Premier Senior Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork PSHC) is an annual club hurling competition organised by the Cork County B ...

title with a number of Kilbrittain players on the team, 5 playing on the team with 2 subs. After competing 10 years in the Intermediate grade and being runners up in 3 county finals (1988, 1989, 1993) Kilbrittain won the

Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship The Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork IAHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Cork GAA, Cork Coun ...

in 1995. In 1996, Kilbrittain became a senior hurling club. In 2010 Kilbrittain won the Cork County intermediate A hurling championship.

Achievements

Winners (1) 1995 Runners-Up 1988, 1989, 1993 *

Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship The Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork IAHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Cork County Board ...

Winners (1) 2010 * Cork Lower Intermediate Hurling championship Runners-Up 2021 *

Winners (1) 1985 Runners-Up 1927, 1984 *

Runners-Up 1926 * Cork Junior B Football Championship Winners (2) 1992, 2009 * Cork Junior B Inter-Divisional Football Championship Winners 2016 * Cork Minor A Hurling Championship Winners (1) 1992 (As Seaside Rovers) * Cork Minor C Football Championship Winners (1) 2008 *

South West 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 1 ...

Winners (12) 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1978, 1984, 1985 Runners-Up 1929, 1931, 1933, 1939, 1957, 1959, 1965, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982, 2005 *

South West 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 Associatio ...

(1): 1926 Runners-Up 1993, 2017 * South West Junior B Hurling Championship Winners (4) 1946, 1951, 1958, 1967, 2021 * South West Junior B Football Championship Winners (2) 1970, 1992, 2009, 2016 Runners-Up 1969, 1991, 2008, * South West Junior C Hurling Championship Winners (2) 1983, 1993, 2010 Runners-Up 1984, 2002, 2003, 2004 * South West Junior D Football Championship Winners (4) 1982, 1984, 1987, 2003 Runners-Up 1986, 1988 * West Cork Minor A Hurling Championship Winners (5) 1981, 1982, 1992 (As Seaside Rovers), 2002, 2006 Runners-Up 1960, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2016, 2020 * West Cork Minor B Hurling Championship Winners (1) 1981 (As Seaside Rovers) * West Cork Minor B Football Championship Winners (1) 1993 (As Seaside Rovers) 2017 Runners-Up 1998, 2004, * West Cork Minor C Football Championship Winners (1) 2008 * West Cork Under-21 A Hurling Championship Winners (8) 1979, 1983, 1984, 1986, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2011 Runners-Up 1975, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2011 * West Cork Under 21 B Hurling Championship Winners (1) 2021 * West Cork Under-21 B Football Championship Winners (1) 2011 Runners-Up 1986, 2002 * West Cork Under-21 C Football Championship Winners (1) 2014

Notable players

Owen Sexton Owen Sexton (born 1975) is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer who played as a centre-back for the Cork senior team. Born in Kilbrittain, County Cork, Sexton first played competitive Gaelic football whilst at school at Hamilton High School, Ba ...

, Cork Minor Football All-Ireland winner 1993, Cork U21 and senior footballer from 1996 to 2006. Captained Cork in 2005. County Senior Football winner with Carbery in 2004. Captain of Kilbrittain Junior B Football County winners in 2009, Intermediate hurling county winner in 2010. * Dan O'Connell * Jamie Wall

References

External sources

Kilbrittain GAA website
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