The Longford County Board of the

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(GAA) ( ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Coiste Chontae an Longfort) or Longford GAA is one of the 32

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s of the GAA in

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, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Longford. The county board is also responsible for the Longford county teams. The county football team won its only

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title in 1966 with a one-point victory over

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in the Home Final and an aggregate win over New York in the Final. The team won its only

Leinster Senior Football Championship The Leinster Senior Football Championship, known simply as the Leinster Championship and shortened to Leinster SFC, is an annual inter-county Gaelic football competition organised by the Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GA ...

title in 1968, with a 3-9 to 1-4 win over

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Clubs

The county board oversees 21 active adult Gaelic football clubs. This is down from 24 clubs in 2009 which at the time was the smallest, below

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, which had 26 back then. *

Abbeylara Abbeylara () is a village in the easternmost portion of County Longford, Ireland, located about three kilometers east of Granard on the R396 regional road. Its name is derived from a monastery, the great Abbey of Lerha, founded in 1205 by ...

* Ardagh Moydow * Ballymahon * Ballymore * Carrickedmond * Cashel * Clonguish *

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* Dromard * Fr. Manning Gaels * Grattan Óg * Kenagh *

Killoe Young Emmets Killoe Young Emmets (Irish: ''Emmet Óg Cill Eo'') is a Gaelic Football club based in Killoe, County Longford, Ireland. The club is also referred to by the Irish 'Emmet Óg' or by 'Killoe Emmet Óg'. Organised Gaelic Games in the Parish of K ...

* Legan Sarsfields *

Longford Slashers Longford Slashers is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in Longford, County Longford, Ireland. The club is based at Michael Fay Park in Longford Town and has won the Longford Senior Football Championship 16 times - more than any other ...

* Mostrim *

Mullinalaghta St Columba's Mullinalaghta (; Irish ''Mullach na Leachta''), also officially referred to as Mullanalaghta, is a half-parish in the north-eastern part of County Longford, Ireland, located about eight kilometres north of Granard. Name and topography Mullin ...

* Rathcline * Seán Connollys * St Brigid's Killashee * St Mary's Granard Three active adult hurling clubs are also present. * Clonguish Gaels *

* Wolfe Tones (Mostrim)

Football

Clubs

12 clubs contest the

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are the current Longford Senior Football champions (as of 2022).

won the

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in 2018.

County team

Longford won the

in 1966, then the 1968

. The county has never won the

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Hurling

Clubs

3 clubs contest the

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. Clonguish are the current Longford Senior Hurling champions (as of 2022).

County team

Like most of its neighbours, Longford have struggled to compete with the bigger counties as they only have three Hurling teams in the county, Slashers, Wolfe Tones and Clonguish. The county team won the

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title in 2002, In 2005 & 2006 they won the Leinster Shield. They won the Lory Meagher Cup, for the first time, in Croke Park on 3 July 2010 and won on a scoreline 1 – 20 to Donegal 1 – 12. Liam Griffin has said the GAA should be ashamed of itself over its failure in the promotion of hurling.

Honours

All Irelands (2)

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Lory Meagher Cup The Lory Meagher Cup (; often referred to as the Meagher Cup) is the fifth-highest inter-county senior championship in hurling. Each year, the champion team in the Lory Meagher Cup is promoted to the Nicky Rackard Cup. The Lory Meagher Cup, w ...

: (2) ** Champions (2): 2010, 2014 ** Runners-Up (2): 2013, 2022

Provincials (3)

Kehoe Cup The Kehoe Cup ( ; ga, Corn Mhic Eochaidh) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association ( GAA) since 1977 for second- and third-tier inter-county teams in the province of Leinster in Irel ...

(1) ** 2018 * Leinster Hurling Shield (2) ** 2005, 2006

Leagues (3)

* National Hurling League Division 3 (1) ** 2002 * National Hurling League Division 4 (1) ** 1984 * All Ireland Minor Hurling League Division 3 (1) ** 1997 ;Other (1) *U16 All Ireland Winners (2013)

Ladies' football

Longford have the following achievements in ladies' football. *

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s: 1 ** 1997

Camogie

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References

External links

Longford GAA site

Longford Gaelic Stats site

Longford on Hoganstand.com
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