, near

Bickenhill Bickenhill is a small village in the civil parish of Bickenhill and Marston Green, in the Solihull district, in the county of the West Midlands, England, on the eastern fringe of the West Midlands conurbation. Bickenhill is home to Birmingham A ...

, Solihull, England, is the principal

Gaelic games Gaelic games ( ga, Cluichí Gaelacha) are a set of sports played worldwide, though they are particularly popular in Ireland, where they originated. They include Gaelic football, hurling, Gaelic handball and rounders. Football and hurling, the ...

sports facility in the

West Midlands West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...

. It is administered by the

Warwickshire GAA The Warwickshire County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (or Warwickshire GAA) is one of the county boards outside Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in Warwickshire. The county board is also responsible for the Warwic ...

. is located east of Birmingham near Birmingham International Airport. It is currently the home grounds of Britain GAA.

Facilities

consists of three full-size Gaelic Athletic Association pitches with eight changing rooms, bar area and car-parking. The address is: Pairc Na hÉireann, Catherine de Barnes Lane, Solihull, B92 0DB.

Use

has hosted numerous Warwickshire

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 ...

and

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 ...

matches as well as the provincial knockout championships and the

British University Gaelic football Championship The British University Gaelic football Championship is an annual Gaelic football tournament held for universities in Great Britain. It is organised by the BUGAA which is a branch of the Higher Education GAA committee which oversees Gaelic Games i ...

s. Most recently, with the entry of Warwickshire's hurling team into the Lory Meagher Cup and the Leinster Junior Shield, it also regularly hosts

teams from Ireland. The future of the ground was in question due to plans to drive a motorway through its middle.

References

External links

Warwickshire G.A.A. Old link

Warwickshire G.A.A.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pairc Na Heireann Gaelic games grounds in England Solihull Sports venues in the West Midlands (county) British GAA