Portroe GAA is a

Tipperary GAA The Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) ( ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Coiste Chontae Thiobraid Árann) or Tipperary GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in Cou ...

club which is located in

County Tipperary County Tipperary ( ga, Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early 13th century, shortly after th ...

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 ...

. Both

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 ...

and

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 ...

are played in the "North-Tipperary" divisional competitions. The club is centred on the village of

Portroe Portroe () is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland. The village is located on the R494 regional road, 3 km from the eastern shore of Lough Derg and 10 km west of the town of Nenagh. Portroe spans the townlands of Garrykennedy, Glenc ...

which is eight miles outside

Nenagh Nenagh (, ; or simply ''An tAonach'') meaning “The Fair of Ormond” or simply "The Fair", is the county town and second largest town in County Tipperary in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Nenagh used to be a market town, and the site of the ...

History

Portroe is in the centre of a traditional slate quarrying district of Northwest Tipperary, several kilometers outside Nenagh, that sent many emigrants to the

Vermont Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...

USA slate belt in the 19th century, where to this day their descendants continue to receive honours in American football, basketball, baseball, soccer, athletics and distance running. The local school side being the Fair Haven "Slaters" Many other natives of this area emigrated to

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Honours

* North Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship (1) 2012 *

Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship The Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1979 for the third-tier hurling teams in the county of Tipperary in Ireland. Th ...

(1) 1990 * North Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship (4) 1950, 1981, 1983, 1990 * North Tipperary Intermediate Hurling League (1) 1988 * North Tipperary Junior A Hurling Championship (4) 1915, 1916, 1968, 1973 * Tipperary Junior B Hurling Championship (1) 1998 * North Tipperary Junior B Hurling Championship (5) 1990, 1998, 2007, 2014, 2016 * North Tipperary Junior B Hurling League (2) 2012, 2018 * North Tipperary Junior A Football Championship (9) 1937, 1979, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2006, 2016, 2017, 2018 * North Tipperary Under-21 B Hurling Championship (4) 1980, 1982, 1989, 2011 * North Tipperary Under-21 C Hurling Championship (2) 2000, 2004 * North Tipperary Under-21 B Football Championship (5) 1989, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2017 * North Tipperary Minor B Hurling Championship (2) 2005, 2012 * Tipperary Minor C Hurling Championship (1) 2009 * North Tipperary Minor C Hurling Championship (1) 2003 * North Tipperary Minor B Football Championship (1) 1990

Notable players

Kevin O'Halloran Kevin O'Halloran (3 March 1937 – 5 July 1976) was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1950s who won a gold medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. The first Western Australian to win Olympic ...

(Inter-county footballer for Tipperary) * John Sheedy (Former goalkeeper with the Tipperary senior team) *

Liam Sheedy Liam is a short form of the Irish name Uilliam or the old Germanic name William. Etymology The original name was a merging of two Old German elements: ''willa'' ("will" or "resolution"); and ''helma'' ("helmet"). The juxtaposition of these elem ...

(Current Tipperary manager and former manager then they won the 2010 All Ireland title) * Darren Gleeson (All-Star goalkeeper 2014) * Robert Byrne (Member of Tipperary All-Ireland championship winning team)

References

External links

Tipperary GAA site
Gaelic games clubs in County Tipperary Hurling clubs in County Tipperary Gaelic football clubs in County Tipperary {{Tipperary-GAA-club-stub