Monasterevan G.F.C. is a

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 ...

club based in Monasterevin,

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, Ireland. The club competes in the County Kildare GAA board league and cup system. They were Kildare "club of the year" in 1977. In 2012, Monasterevan G.F.C. won their first

Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship The Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football tournament played between the Intermediate football champions of the 12 counties of Leinster. The winners will represent the province in the semi-final of the All- ...

, beating Raheens in the county final on a scoreline of 1-10 to 0-07 and O’Connells of Louth 0-04 to 0-03 in the Leinster. Monasterevan were the first club in Ireland to win a football and hurling double, defeating Clane by 1-3 to 1-2, in the 1890 Kildare football final, and defeating Moorefield in the Kildare hurling final the same year.

Rosglas

Rosglas ( Irish for Rosegreen, sometimes written as "Ros Glas") GAA club was founded in 1974 as a juvenile club. It currently serves as a hurling club. It has won five minor championship and league titles and won county championships at under-12, under-14 and under-16 level.

Honours

* Kildare Senior Football Championship: (3) 1890, 1911, 1977 Runners-up: 1907, 1910, 1912, 1973, 1976 *

: 2012 * Kildare Intermediate Football Championship: (4) 1959, 1971, 2012, 2019 * Kildare Junior Football Championship: (4) 1906, 1910, 1935, 1954 Runners-up: 1930, 1945 * Kildare Senior B Football Championship: Runners-up: 1992 * Kildare Reserve "B" Football Championship: (1) 2013 * Kildare Junior C Football Championship: (1) 1998 * Kildare Under-21 B Football Shield Winners (2) 2011, 2013 * Kildare Minor Football Championship: (1) 1928 Runners-up: 1992 * Leinster Leader Cup: (2) 1973, 1974 Runners-up: 1975 * Kildare Junior Football League: (2) 1945, 1954 Runners-up: 1933, 1948; * Kildare Junior Football League (Div 2): (2) 1993, 1995 Runners-up: 1973, 1996 * Kildare Junior Football League (Div 3B): (1) 1998 * Kildare Junior Football League (Div 4 South): (1) 2013 * Kildare Minor Football League (Div l): Runners-up: 1993 * Kildare Minor Football League (Div 2): (1) 1992 * Kildare Minor Football League (Div 3): (3) 1990, 2011, 2013 Runners-up: 2010 * Kildare Minor Football League (Div 4): (1) 2008 * Keogh Cup: 2007, 2012, 2017 * Kildare Under 21 Champions: 2016

Notable players

* Hugh Hyland

Bibliography

* * * * ''Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000'' (in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000) *

References

External links

Official Monasterevan GFC site
{{Kildare GAA clubs Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare