West Kerry is a Divisional

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team in

Kerry Kerry or Kerri may refer to: * Kerry (name), a given name and surname of Gaelic origin (including a list of people with the name) Places * Kerry, Queensland, Australia * County Kerry, Ireland ** Kerry Airport, an international airport in Count ...

. In 1924 the county convention of

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agreed to setting up divisional boards to promote Gaelic football and

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in Kerry. The Premier competition in West Kerry is the West Kerry Championship and the West Kerry League.

Member clubs

* An Ghaeltacht *

Annascaul Annascaul or Anascaul () is a village on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. It is situated 32.9 kilometres west of Tralee on the N86 Tralee - Dingle national secondary road near its junction with the R561 regional road to Castlema ...

Castlegregory Castlegregory (, meaning "Griaire's Castle") is a village in County Kerry, Ireland. It is situated on the north side of the Dingle Peninsula, halfway between Tralee and Dingle. As of the 2016 Census, Castlegregory had a population of 250. Castl ...

Dingle Dingle ( Irish: ''An Daingean'' or ''Daingean Uí Chúis'', meaning "fort of Ó Cúis") is a town in County Kerry, Ireland. The only town on the Dingle Peninsula, it sits on the Atlantic coast, about southwest of Tralee and northwest of Kill ...

* Lios Póil

Football

Achievements

Kerry Senior Football Championship The Kerry Senior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as Garvey’s SuperValu Senior Football Championship) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1 ...

(3) 1984, 1985, 1990 * Kerry Under-21 Football Championship (5) 1977, 1989, 1994, 1996, 2009 * Kerry Minor Football Championship 1959, 1990, 1993, 2007, 2008, 2011

Notable players

Páidí Ó Sé Páidí Ó Sé (, ; 16 May 1955 – 15 December 2012) was an Irish Gaelic football manager and player, whose league and championship career at senior level with the Kerry county team spanned fifteen seasons from 1974 to 1988. Ó Sé is wide ...

Dara Ó Cinnéide Dara Ó Cinnéide (born 25 April 1975 in Dublin) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for his local club An Ghaeltacht and at senior level for the Kerry county team from 1995 until 2005. Ó Cinnéide captained Kerry to the All-Irela ...

Tomás Ó Flatharta Tomás Ó Flatharta is a Gaelic football manager who is originally from County Kerry. He has managed three county teams: Westmeath, Galway and Laois. Playing career Durling his playing days, Ó Flatharta played for his local An Ghaeltacht ...

* Rónán Ó Flatharta * Mícheál Ó Sé *

Marc Ó Sé Marc Ó Sé (born 25 April 1980) is an Irish sportsman. A teacher by profession, he works in the CBS in Tralee Co. Kerry, he played Gaelic football for the Kerry county football team, Kerry county team from 2002 until 2016 and played with his l ...

Darragh Ó Sé Darragh Ó Sé (born 5 March 1975 in Ard an Bhóthair, Ventry, County Kerry) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer. He plays with his local club, An Ghaeltacht, and was a member at senior level of the Kerry county team from 1997 until he ann ...

Tomás Ó Sé Tomás Ó Sé (; born 21 June 1978) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer. He played Gaelic football with Nemo Rangers and at senior level for the Kerry county team from 1998 until he retired in 2013, playing predominantly in the half-back line ...

* Aodán Mac Gearailt * Brian Ó Beaglaoich * Tommy Doyle * Paddy Kennedy * Bingo O'Driscoll *

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* Fintan Ashe *

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* Bill Dillon * David Geaney *

Michael Geaney Michael Geaney (born 2 October 1989) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Dingle Dingle ( Irish: ''An Daingean'' or ''Daingean Uí Chúis'', meaning "fort of Ó Cúis") is a town in County Kerry, Ireland. The only town on the Din ...

* Paul Geaney * Seán Geaney *

Tommy Griffin Tommy Griffin is a former Irish Gaelic football player for Kerry and An Daingean. Playing career Club At club level Griffin lined out with Dingle GAA. He won Kerry Intermediate Football Championship titles in 1996 and 2004. He also won ...

Diarmuid Murphy Diarmuid Murphy (born 22 August 1975 in Dingle, County Kerry) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for his local club Dingle and was the goalkeeper at senior level on the Kerry county football team from 2004 until 2009. In August 2010 it wa ...

Vincent O'Connor Vincent 'Shin' O'Connor (born 1957 in Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland) is an Irish former sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club Dingle and was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team from 1977 until 1984. He was a ...

* Tom O'Sullivan * Pat "Aeroplane" O'Shea * Michael Moriarty * Tom Moriarty * Jack Dowling * John Healy * Sean O'Mahony * Alan Fitzgerald * Seamus Murphy * Liam Higgins *

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Divisional competitions

West Kerry Senior Football Championship The West Kerry Senior Football Championship is a Gaelic football competition between clubs affiliated to the West Kerry division of the Gaelic Athletic Association. An Ghaeltacht , Abha Na Scáil , Caisleán Ghriare , Daingean Uí Chúis & ...

References

Divisional boards of Kerry GAA Gaelic games clubs in County Kerry {{Kerry-GAA-club-stub