Teemore Shamrocks 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 the village of

Teemore Teemore () is a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, three miles south of Derrylin. In the 2001 Census it had a population of four hundred people. It is situated within the Fermanagh and Omagh District Council area. Places of intere ...

County Fermanagh County Fermanagh ( ; ) is one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the six counties of Northern Ireland. The county covers an area of 1,691 km2 (653 sq mi) and has a population of 61,805 a ...

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. They are the most successful club in the

Fermanagh Senior Football Championship The Fermanagh Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Gaelic football clubs in Fermanagh. The winners of the Fermanagh Championship qualify to represent their county in the Ulster Sen ...

having won it 21 times.

History

The club was founded in 1904 and won the inaugural Fermanagh Senior Championship that year. They have gone on to win the title twenty-one times, their last coming in 2005 after defeating

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. Teemore clubman Peter Quinn served as

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of the

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from 1991 to 1994. Barry Owens became the first Teemore player to win an All Star in 2004. He was later honoured for a second time in 2006.

Notable players

* Barry Owens * Peter Quinn *

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Honours

(21): 1904, 1905, 1906, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1924, 1926, 1929, 1935, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1983, 2005 * Fermanagh Intermediate Football Championship (1): 2012 * Fermanagh Junior Football Championship (1): 1959

References

External links

Teemore Shamrocks Official Website
{{Fermanagh GAA clubs Gaelic football clubs in County Fermanagh Gaelic games clubs in County Fermanagh