St Kevin's 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 ...

(GAA) club that fields teams in competitions organised by

Louth GAA The Louth County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) () or Louth GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Louth. It oversees competitions such as the Louth Senior Fo ...

. It is located in the townland of Philipstown, just over 2 miles from the town of

Dunleer Dunleer () is a town and townland in County Louth, Ireland. Dunleer is situated midway between Dundalk and Drogheda and is located on the junction of the R132, R169 and R170 regional roads that intersect the town. As of the 2022 census, th ...

in mid-

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. As of 2024, the club competes in the Louth Intermediate Championship and Division 2 of the county football Leagues. Fellow Dunleer parish club Lann Léire are local rivals. In November 2023

Paddy Carr Paddy Carr is a Gaelic football manager and former player. He played for, and later managed, the senior Donegal county team. While managing Kilmacud Crokes, Carr won the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship and the All-Ireland Senior Club ...

was announced as the club's new senior football team manager. Ganson Building & Civil Engineering Ltd., a construction company co-founded by former St Kevin's player David Rogers, has been appointed to build the new

stadium in

Dundalk Dundalk ( ; ) is the county town of County Louth, Ireland. The town is situated on the Castletown River, which flows into Dundalk Bay on the north-east coast of Ireland, and is halfway between Dublin and Belfast, close to and south of the bor ...

. Ganson previously built the Louth GAA Centre of Excellence in Darver.

History

The club was founded in 1948. By winning the

Louth Junior Football Championship The Louth Junior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association competition, organised by Louth GAA and contested by the junior One/A grade Gaelic football clubs in County Louth, Ireland. The winner qualifies to represent the cou ...

in 1968, the St Kevin's reached the Senior ranks of Louth football for the first time. The club has finished runner-up twice in the final of the

Louth Intermediate Football Championship The Louth Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association competition, organised by Louth GAA, among the intermediate grade Gaelic football clubs in County Louth, Ireland. History The competition, introduced as a bridg ...

. Firstly in 2000 to Dreadnots and then in 2022, when defeated by

Cooley Kickhams Cooley Kickhams Gaelic Football Club is a Gaelic football and ladies' Gaelic football club based on the Cooley Peninsula, County Louth, Ireland. History The club is named after the Cooley Peninsula on which it stands and was founded in 1887. Th ...

. In Ladies' football, St Kevin's compete at Senior Championship level and won the 2022 Division 2 League title. St Kevin's also field

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teams at adult and juvenile levels.

Honours

* Louth Intermediate Football League (1): 1990 * Dealgan Milk Products Shield (2): 1990, 1997 *

(4): 1968, 1989, 2006, 2016 * Louth Junior A Football League (4): 1965, 1966, 1967, 1988 * Kevin Mullen Shield (2): 1987, 2018 * Kevin Mullen Plate (1): 2012 *

Louth Minor Football Championship The Louth Minor Football Championship is an annual competition organised by Louth GAA between the premier teams in minor (under-17) Gaelic football in County Louth. Trophy The winning team is presented with the Father Larry Murray Cup, named aft ...

(1): 1982 * Louth Minor 'B' Football Championship (2): 2011, § 2014 *

Louth Junior 2A Football Championship The Louth Junior 2A Football Championship is an annual knockout gaelic football competition organised by Louth GAA, contested by the second teams of Senior clubs in County Louth. Formerly known as the Second Division Championship, it was renam ...

(1): 1957 *

Louth Junior 2B Football Championship The Louth Junior 2B Football Championship is an annual knockout gaelic football competition organised by Louth GAA, contested by the second teams of Intermediate and Junior clubs in County Louth. Prior to 1994, the Louth Junior 2A Championshi ...

(1): 1996 * Louth Junior 2C Football Championship (1): 2019 * Louth Junior 2 Football League (Division 4D) (1): 2015 ''Shared with Naomh Fionnbarra'' § ''Shared with Baile Talún''

Inter-county players

St Kevin's players who have represented Louth at

inter-county Inter-county, is Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) List of Gaelic games terminology, terminology which refers to competitions or matches between County (Gaelic games), counties, as used in Gaelic games (differently from legal counties). The term c ...

level include: * Dickie Kieran * Benny Grogan * Con Sands * John Boylan * Stephen Matthews * Paul Brennan * Cian Callan * Evan Maher

References

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