Gortnahoe–Glengoole GAA () is a

Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sports, amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports o ...

club located in the

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...

of Gortnahoe–Glengoole in

County Tipperary County Tipperary () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary (tow ...

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, on the border with

County Kilkenny County Kilkenny () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster and is part of the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. It is named after the City status in Ir ...

. It competes in

hurling Hurling (, ') is an outdoor Team sport, team game of ancient Gaelic culture, Gaelic Irish origin, played by men and women. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goa ...

and

Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

in the Mid-Tipperary division of

Tipperary GAA The Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) () or Tipperary GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Tipperary and the Tipperary county teams. County Tippe ...

. The club was founded in 1886 and owned by Daniel Moore of Moyne-Templetuohy

Hurling

Honours

Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship The Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1979 for the third-tier hurling teams in the county of Tipperary in Ireland. Th ...

(2): 1988, 2020 *Mid-Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship (7): 1988, 1999, 2000, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2017; *Mid-Tipperary Junior A Hurling Championship (7): 1955 (Gortnahoe), 1959 (Gortnahoe), 1968, 1972, 1973, 1983, 1986 *Mid-Tipperary Junior B Hurling Championship: (3): 2006, 2015, 2020 * Mid Tipperary Under-21 A Hurling Championship: (2): 1985 (as Moyne-Gortnahoe), 1991 * Mid Tipperary Under-21 B Hurling Championship: (5): 1987, 2000, 2004, 2016, 2019 * Tipperary Under-21 B Hurling Championship: (2): 2016, 2019 *Mid-Tipperary Minor A Hurling Championship: (1): 1960 (as Glengoole) *Tipperary Minor 'B' Hurling Championship (2): 1986, 1994 *Mid Tipperary Minor 'B' Hurling Championship (6): 1986, 1994, 1996, 2016, 2022 ,2024 *Mid-Tipperary Junior No. 2 Hurling Championship (3): 1952 (as Gortnahoe), 1958 (as Gortnahoe), 1954 (as Glengoole)

Notable players

* Jack Dunne, All-Ireland medallist 1887 * Pat Fizgerald * Larry Kiely, Tipperary hurler 1960s and Olympic showjumper * Pat Leahy, Tipperary hurler, 1887 *

Shane Long Shane Patrick Long (born 22 January 1987) is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Long began his football career at Cork City. He later moved to Reading where, among other achievements, he scored three goals in ten s ...

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soccer player * Johnny Moriarty (Kilkenny)

Gaelic football

Honours

* Mid Tipperary Junior A Football Championship: (1): 2016 * Tipperary Junior B Football Championship: (2): 1996, 2014 * Mid Tipperary Junior B Football Championship: (5): 1993, 1996, 2002, 2011, 2014 * Mid Tipperary Under-21 B Football Championship: (2): 1989, 2003 * Mid Tipperary Minor A Football Championship: (1): 2003 * Mid Tipperary Minor C Football Championship: (1): 2003

Camogie

St Patrick's

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 ...

Club was founded in 1964 when Glengoole amalgamated with Ballingarry. They went on to win two All-Ireland and three county championships and supplied six of the 12 players on the Tipperary team for the 1965 All-Ireland final. Following victory in 1966, the club disbanded and the players returned to their original clubs.

Honours

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship The All-Ireland Club Camogie Championship is a competition for club teams in the Irish women’s field sport of camogie. It is contested by the senior club champions of the leading counties and organised by An Cumann Camógaíochta. Trophy The t ...

(2):

1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...

1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...

*Tipperary Senior Camogie Championship (3): 1964, 1965, 1966

References

External links

Tipperary GAA siteGAA Info Profile
Gaelic games clubs in County Tipperary {{DEFAULTSORT:Gortnahoe-Glengoole GAA