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Éire Óg-Corrachoill CLG
Éire Óg-Corrachoill (; "Young Ireland- Prosperous") is a hurling club based in the parish of Caragh in County Kildare. The parish of Caragh includes the village of Caragh itself, surrounding townlands and Prosperous village which is situated about 3 km north-west from the village. The club is the result of an amalgamation which occurred in 1994 between Éire Óg of Caragh and Corra Choill of Prosperous. The first record of any kind of success in the Caragh parish area involves the Clongorey Campaigners. RIC records from 1890 show that Clongorey Campaigners had 38 members with Dan Kelly, John Murphy, Pat Fullam and James Kelly listed as officers. Clongorey reached the Senior Hurling Championship final in 1891 and but were defeated by Maynooth. Their home ground is in donore just opposite the motor racing circuit Mondello Park. History of Corra Choill Hurling was introduced to Prosperous in the mid 70s. The team played under the name of Caragh and played their home games a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caragh
Caragh or Carragh () is a village in County Kildare, Ireland. It is located on the R409 regional road between the River Liffey and the Grand Canal and is located 6.1 km north-west of Naas. The village is also 7.9 km from Clane and 10.6 km from Newbridge. Caragh is also the name of the parish that includes the village itself, surrounding townlands, and the village of Prosperous, about 3 km northwest of Caragh. Name Kildare County Council, OSI and other government bodies and agencies use the spelling "Carragh". This spelling is used only on official maps, planning notices and other official documents. Geography The village is situated in the northern half of County Kildare approximately 3 km north-west of junction 10 of the M7 motorway. The Liffey flows adjacent to the village. There is a single traffic lane bridge crossing the Liffey approaching Caragh on the R409 from the south. A local historian claims that it is the oldest bridge still in e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Mile House GAA
Two Mile House is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in County Kildare, Ireland. The club's grounds are located on The Commons, just off the Dunlavin Road, in Two Mile House parish. The parish of Two Mile House is surrounded by the towns of Naas, Newbridge and Kilcullen. Two Mile House won the 2014 All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship after defeating Fuerty of Roscommon in February 2014. In 2018, the club won the Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship after beating Shamrocks GAA from Offaly in the final. Gaelic football Since the late 1990s, the focus of the club had been largely on Gaelic football. As of 2015, the club men's senior football team was playing in the Intermediate Championship and League Division 2. Some of the notable achievements of club players, at county level, include: *Jimmy O'Connor won an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal with Kildare in 1919. *Maurice Colbert (also won a Leinster minor medal), Shane Darcy and Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raheens GAA
Raheens is a Gaelic football club based in Caragh, County Kildare, Ireland, winner of the Leinster senior club championship in 1981, 10 county senior football championships, first winners of the Kildare club of the year in 1973 and winners again in 1976. The separate hurling club, formerly known as Éire Óg, has now amalgamated to become Éire Óg-Corrachoill. History Raheens won the first of ten Kildare titles in 1935 with a 6-3 to 1-0 win over Kildare St. Brigid's. They won their second in 1936 and third in 1964. A win in 1981 led to Leinster club championship honours. In 2017, Raheens beat Kilcock to win the Intermediate Championship Final. Honours ;As "Raheens" * Leinster Senior Club Football Championship: Winners 1981 * Kildare Senior Football Championship: Winners (10) 1935, 1936, 1943, 1964, 1968, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981 * Kildare Intermediate Football Championship: Winners (2) 1958, 2017 * Kildare Junior Football Championship: Winners (2) 1928, 1974* (1974 Won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kildare Senior Camogie Championship
Camogie was played in Kildare shortly after the sport was first organized in 1904. However, due to sparse records it is not certain when the first senior camogie championship was held. The earliest record of Camogie appears in an advertisement by Athy Ladies Hurling Club advertised a members reunion in July 1909. Kildare sent delegates to the Camogie congress of 1932, and a county board was formed in 1934 with Fr Byrne CC of Caragh Caragh or Carragh () is a village in County Kildare, Ireland. It is located on the R409 regional road between the River Liffey and the Grand Canal and is located 6.1 km north-west of Naas. The village is also 7.9 km from Clane and ... as President, Mrs B McCarthy as vice-president, William Fisher of Newbridge as secretary, and Polly Smyth of Newbridge as treasurer. Camogie was reorganized at a county convention in 1954, and has been played in Kildare continuously since. Roll of honour Bibliography *Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kildare Senior B Hurling Championship
The Kildare Senior B Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the UPMC Kildare Senior B Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Kildare SBHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Kildare County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association for the second tier hurling teams in County Kildare in Ireland. In its current format, the Kildare Senior B Championship begins with a group stage. The six participating teams play each other in a round-robin system. This is followed by a knockout phase that culminates with the final match at St Conleth's Park. The winner of the Kildare Senior B Championship qualifies for the subsequent Leinster Intermediate Club Championship. Naas are the title holders after defeating Moorefield by 1–21 to 0–17 in the 2024 final. Format Group stage Over the course of the six-team group stage, each team plays once against the others in the group, resulting in each team being guaranteed at least five games. Two points are awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Dunney
Patrick Dunney (born 1945) is an Irish former hurler, Gaelic footballer and Gaelic games administrator. At club level, he played with Raheens and Éire Óg-Corrachoill and at inter-county level he lined out as a dual player with various Kildare teams. Playing career Dunney's 30-year club career as a dual player began at juvenile level in 1955. As a hurler with Éire Óg-Corrachoill he won ten Kildare SHC medals between 1964 and 1984. Dunney also won seven Kildare SFC medals with Raheens, while he also claimed a Leinster Club SFC medal when Raheens became the first Kildare club to win the competition. At inter-county level, Dunney was just 17-year-old when he won an All-Ireland JHC medal with Kildare in 1962. He later captained the Kildare under-21 team to consecutive Leinster U21FC titles, as well as their inaugural All-Ireland U21FC title in 1965. Dunney added a second All-Ireland JHC medal to his collection after beating Warwickshire in the 1966 All-Ireland junior f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castledermot GAA
Castledermot GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Castledermot, County Kildare, Ireland. The club has won three Kildare Senior Hurling Championships and teams representing the club were the first winners of the Intermediate Football Championship and Senior Camogie Championship. The club, which was named "Kildare club of the year" in 2004, is the home club of All-Ireland football finalist of 1935, Pat Byrne, who played for the club 1925–1942. Jimmy Curran was goalkeeper on the Kildare hurling team of the millennium. History Castledermot GAA was founded at a meeting, attended by a dozen people, on 17 February 1889. Royal Irish Constabulary records from 1890 show four clubs in the area. Castledermot had 40 members, Ballyhade Pallatine had 70 members, Graney had 50 members, and Kilkea Geraldines had 40 members. The Castledermot club played at Barnhill, moved to Abbeyland and to their current grounds at Woodlands in 1970. Gaelic football Pat Byrne played in two A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suncroft
Suncroft () is a village in County Kildare, Ireland, south of The Curragh and east of Kildare Town. As of 2016, Suncroft had a population of 746. Name The name Suncroft means "a sun-blessed croft". According to local folklore, Suncroft was named by a priest who was walking in the croft (or field), and the sun was shining so brightly on the field that he decided to name the place Suncroft. Education The primary school in the town is Suncroft National School (in Irish ''Scoil Bhride, Crochta na Gréine''). Transport Bus Éireann route 126 serves the village once a day in each direction (not Sundays) providing a link to/from Kildare, Newbridge, Naas and Dublin. The nearest railway stations are Kildare railway station and Newbridge railway station. Sport Suncroft A.F.C. is the local football club, and Suncroft GAA is the local Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sports, amateur sporting and cultural o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kildare Senior Hurling Championship
The Kildare Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the UPMC Kildare Senior Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Kildare SHC) is an annual club hurling competition organised by the Kildare GAA, Kildare County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association and contested by the top-ranking senior clubs in the County Kildare, county of Kildare in Ireland, deciding the competition winners through a group and knockout format. It is the most prestigious competition in Kildare hurling. In its present format, the eight participating teams are drawn against each other in a Preliminary Round and following that the four Preliminary Round winners go to a winners group and the other four in to a ‘losers’ group. At the group stages they play each other in a Single round-robin tournament, single round-robin system. This is followed by a knockout phase of one quarter final (3rd in Winners group v 2nd in Losers Group), then two semi-finals and culminates with the final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camogie
Camogie ( ; ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game "hurling" (which is played by men only), it is organised by the Dublin-based Camogie Association (An Cumann CamógaÃochta). The annual All Ireland Camogie Championship has a record attendance of 33,154,2007 All Ireland final reports iIrish Examiner an while average attendances in recent years are in the range of 15,000 to 18,000. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Ireland
Young Ireland (, ) was a political movement, political and cultural movement, cultural movement in the 1840s committed to an all-Ireland struggle for independence and democratic reform. Grouped around the Dublin weekly ''The Nation (Irish newspaper), The Nation'', it took issue with the compromises and clericalism of the larger national movement, Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association, from which it seceded in 1847. Despairing, in the face of the Great Irish Famine, Great Famine, of any other course, in 1848 Young Irelanders attempted an insurrection. Following the arrest and the exile of most of their leading figures, the movement split between those who carried the commitment to "physical force" forward into the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and those who sought to build a "League of North and South" linking an Independent Irish Party, independent Irish parliamentary party to tenant agitation for land reform. Origins The Historical Society Many of those later identified as You ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clane GAA
Clane GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Clane, County Kildare, Ireland, winner of 17 Kildare county senior football championships, 16 county senior hurling championships and Kildare club of the year in 1975. Clane players are credited with bringing the handpass into Gaelic football. History Clane town sports pre-date the GAA, those of 12 June 1884 on a field opposite the Dispensary House being reported as "ayquel to Punchestown" by the Leinster Leader. A Leinster Leader report in April 1887 stated that Clane had "the honour of being the first club to be established in County Kildare". Clane were the first Kildare football champions. A Clongowes teacher member of the team, Professor Crowley, was later accredited with having invented the handpass. RIC records from 1890 show that Clane's William O'Briens had 50 members with officers listed as CJ O'Connor (who was also first chairman of Kildare county board) John Geoghegan, Maurice Sammon and James Archer. A set o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
