Annaghdown GAC is a Gaelic Athletic Association

Gaelic Athletic Association

The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...

 club based in County Galway

County Galway

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, Ireland

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. The club is a member of the Galway GAA

Galway GAA

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 and was founded in 1887. Underage teams in both hurling and football play in the Galway league and championships. Annaghdown are a dual club and currently cater for Gaelic football

Gaelic football

Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...

, Hurling

Hurling

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 and Ladies Football. There was a camogie

Camogie

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 club in the parish in times past when Corrandrum fielded a team, but currently the ladies of the parish play camogie with Carnmore, Turloughmore or Castlegar clubs.

Honours

• Galway Senior Club Football Championship
  Galway Senior Club Football Championship
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  s: 5
  • 1931, 1982, 1985, 1987, 2001

• County Senior Football Leagues: 3
  • 1975, 1976, 1983

• County Intermediate Football Championship: 1
  • 1990

• County Intermediate Football League: 1
  • 1997

• County Junior 'A' Football Championships: 4
  • 1938, 1956, 1958, 1970

• County U-21 'A' Football Championship: 1
  • 2009

• County U-13 'A' Football Championship:28
  • 2009

Hurling

Hurling has been played in Annaghdown parish since the foundation of the GAA. There are several references to teams from the parish affiliating on and off over the years. In the 1950 and '60's Annaghdown had very strong hurling teams winning several North Board Junior Championships but never actually winning out the County Junior Championship proper. In the early '60's Annaghdown entered the Intermediate Championship and almost went Senior in the mid-sixties, but, due to retirements and emigration, they resorted to the Junior grade after a few years.

In the 1970s, Brother Vincent, a monk who taught in Corrandulla school, and a native of Kilkenny

County Kilkenny

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, started juvenile coaching and this work saw Annaghdown win several underage titles in the '80's, culminating in the winning of the 1980 Feile na Gael All-Ireland U14 title. The work started by Brother Vincent was continued by many local people, and it has seen Annaghdown being competitive at underage since. In the last decade Annaghdown’s fortunes have improved at adult level with the clubs top hurling team now trading its wares in the highly competitive Intermediate grade, reaching the semi-final for the first time in 2008.

At present there is a very strong cohort of people taking charge of underage teams in the club, fielding teams from U-8 right up to Intermediate level. Annaghdown also field teams in all grades of football and have won many titles including five county senior football championships in 1931, 1982, 1985, 1987 and 2001.

Honours

• All-Ireland Feile Na Gael Division 4 Hurling: 1
  • 1980

• Junior ‘A’: 1
  • 2002: 1

• Junior 'B': 3
  • 1979, 1987, 2000

• Junior 'C': 1
  • 1999

• Junior 'C' Special: 1
  • 1999

• U21 'B': 1
  • 1985

• U21 'C': 1
  • 2003

• Minor 'B': 1
  • runners-up 1984

• U16 ‘D’: 1
  • 2004

• U16 ‘C’: 1
  • 1996, 2006

• U16 ‘B’: 1
  • 2002

• All Ireland Feile na Gael Div 4: 1
  • 1980

• U14 ‘B’: 1
  • 1978,1980,1988

• U14 ‘C’: 1
  • 1987, 1997, 2006

• U12 (11-a-side): 1
  • 1998, 2004

• Connaught U16: 1
  • 1996

External links

• Official Annaghdown GAA Club Website
• Galway GAA Website