Scariff is a

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club in

Scariff Scarriff Central Statistics Office, Census 2002Population of Towns ordered by County and size, 1996 and 2002 or Scariff () is a large village in east County Clare, Ireland, situated in the midwest of Ireland. The town is on the West end of Loug ...

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History

There is very little recorded of the first few years of Scariff Hurling Club, but it has almost certainly always been a senior club. In 1907, Scariff played in its first

Clare Senior Hurling Championship The Pat O'Donnell & Co. Senior Hurling Championship, more commonly known as the'' Clare Senior Hurling Championship ''or'' Clare SHC, ''is an annual hurling competition organised by the Clare County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. It ...

county final, beating O'Callaghan Mills. It won further senior championships in 1917, 1946, 1952 and 1953 and lost the final in 1918, 1919, 1942, 1943, 1960, 1991 and 1995.

Major honours

(5): 1907, 1917, 1946, 1952, 1953 *

Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship The Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Clare GAA, Clare County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association for the second tier hurling teams in the county of County Clare, Clare in Ireland. Th ...

(3): 1938, 1982, 2020 * Clare Junior A Hurling Championship (2): 1936, 1992 * Clare Junior A Football Championship (2): 1952, 1960 * Clare Under-21 A Hurling Championship (2): 1987, 2022 ''(with Ogonelloe)''

Notable managers

Mike McNamara Michael McNamara (born 1949) is an Irish former hurling manager and former player. He played hurling with his local club Scariff from the 1960s until the 1980s. McNamara is also a publican and night club owner in Scariff and served as manager ...

John Minogue John Minogue (born 21 December 1959 in Scariff, County Clare, Ireland) is an Irish hurling manager and former player. He is the current manager of the Clare under-21 hurling team. Minogue captained UCC to 1 Fitzgibbon Cup in 1981 and also ...

Donal Moloney Donal Moloney (born 1966) is an Irish hurling manager and former player. He was the joint-manager of the Clare senior team with Gerry O'Connor from 2016 until departing after the 2019 championship . On 4 June 2017, in his first Championship ...

Notable players

Players to play Senior Championship Hurling with Clare *

* Barry Murphy

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