Kilkerrin-Clonberne is a
Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the parishes of Clonberne and Kilkerrin in North
County Galway
"Righteousness and Justice"
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Ireland. The club partakes in the sport of Gaelic Football exclusively.
History
In his 'Annals of the GAA in Galway 1884-1901', Padraic O'Laoi notes that Clonberne, like Menlough, was initially a hurling club and was one of only 26 clubs in the county to play matches under GAA rules in 1885.
Kilkerrin-Clonberne won the Galway Junior A Football Championship in 1992.
After achieving Senior status in 1996, the club competed in the
Galway Senior Club Football Championship
The Galway Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association competition between the top Gaelic football clubs in Galway. The winners of the Galway Championship qualify to represent their county in the Connacht Senior Club ...
up until 2015, when it was relegated to the Intermediate grade.
The following year, in 2016, the Kilkerrin-Clonberne Intermediate team reached the Galway Intermediate Football Championship Final. They were defeated by Monivea-Abbey in the final.
That same year, the Kilkerrin-Clonberne Junior A team won the Galway Junior A Football Championship.
The team reached the Galway Intermediate Football Championship Final again in 2020. They were defeated by Cortoon Shamrocks.
Notable former players include Johnny Geraghty & Christy Tyrell, members of
Galway's famous 3 in a row team and John Divilly, a member of Galway's
All-Ireland triumph in 1998.
In 1999, the Ladies football club in Clonberne won an intermediate club All-Ireland. They were runners up in 2019 Senior
All-Ireland Ladies' Club Football Championship and won the 2021 final.
Notable players
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Martin Breheny — played for, and later served as secretary of, the club before he moved to Dublin in 1979
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John Divilly
John Divilly is a former Gaelic footballer who played for the Kilkerrin-Clonberne club. He won the All-Ireland in 1998 and was one of the main players interviewed in the documentary ''A Year Til Sunday'', which used hidden cameras to tell the ...
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Shane Walsh
Notable teams
2021
All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Club Football Championship Winners:
KILKERRIN-CLONBERNE: L Murphy; A Costello, S Gormally, C Costello; S Fahy, N Ward, C Dunleavy; S Divilly, H Noone; O Divilly, L Ward, L Noone; E Noone, C Miskell, A Morrissey.
Subs: N Divilly for Miskell (42), K Mee for Fahy (47), A Clarke for Morrissey (52), M Flanagan for L Noone (60).
Scorers: O Divilly 0-5 (3f), C Miskell 1-0, E Noone 0-2 (1f), A Morrissey 0-2, L Ward 0-1, N Ward 0-1.
Honours
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All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Club Football Championship:
** Winners (1): 2021
** Runners-up (1): 2019
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Connacht Ladies' Senior Club Football Championship
The list of winners below is generated, primarily, using the Roll of Honour from the Connacht LGFA website. With their win in 2016, Carnacon became the most successful provincial club in Ladies' Football with 15 wins, passing out Ballymacarbry ...
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** Winners (6): 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
** Runners-up (3): 2000, 2013, 2017
*Galway Ladies’ Senior Club Football Championship:
** Winners (9): 2000, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
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All-Ireland Intermediate Ladies' Club Football Championship:
** Winners (1): 1999
*Connacht Ladies' Intermediate Club Football Championship:
** Winners (1): 1999
*Galway Intermediate Senior Club Football Championship:
** Winners (1): 1999
*All-Ireland Senior Ladies Club 7’s:
** Winners (1): 2022
References
{{Galway clubs
Gaelic football clubs in County Galway
Gaelic games clubs in County Galway