Seán Treacy's Hurling Club is a

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club located in

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. The club was founded in 1958 and is exclusively concerned with the game of

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 ...

History

The Sean Treacy's club was founded in 1958 at 18 Marius Road,

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, South London, and was named after

Irish War of Independence The Irish War of Independence (), also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (1919–1922), Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and Unite ...

fighter Seán Treacy (1895–1920). Its founding members were Mick Maunsell, Martin McGrath, Pakie Hourigan, Paddy Quinlan (all Limerick), Johnny Connolly (Galway) and Paddy Crowe (Tipperary). The team trained in Tooting Bec Common and reached the final in their first year. They were narrowly defeated by a single point by Brothers Pearse.

Honours

London Senior Hurling Championship The London Senior Hurling Championship is a Gaelic Athletic Association cup competition between the top hurling clubs in London, England. Format Group stage Six clubs start in the group stage. Over the course of the group stage, each team p ...

(5): 1984, 1991, 1993, 1994, 2002 * London Intermediate Hurling Championship (2): 2020, 2023 * All Britain Hurling Championship (1): 2023

External links

Seán Treacy's official website] {{DEFAULTSORT:Sean Treacy's Gaa Gaelic games clubs in London Hurling clubs in London GAA