Annanough GAA 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...

 gaelic football

Gaelic football

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

 club in County Laois

County Laois

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, Ireland

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History

Annanough was founded in 1920 from a merger of the old Vicarstown and Moyanna clubs. Moyanna had won the 1891 Laois Senior Football Championship title while Vicarstown were Laois Intermediate Football Championship

Laois Intermediate Football Championship

The Laois Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the second grade Laois Clubs. The winners of the Laois Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship and in turn, go on to...

 winners in 1917 and 1919. Success wasn’t long coming the new club’s way with the legendary Dick Miller captaining Annanough to a three in a row of Laois Senior Football Championship  titles from 1924 to 1926.

1950s

Another great Annanough team emerged in the 1950s to take two more Laois Senior Football Championship  titles. Names like the Nerneys, Dunnes, Terry O’Connell, Tom Gorman, the Murphys and of course the Millers backboned both club and county team at this time. Annanough went back to intermediate ranks before a Martin Stapleton captained side captured the 1978 Laois Intermediate Football Championship

Laois Intermediate Football Championship

The Laois Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the second grade Laois Clubs. The winners of the Laois Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship and in turn, go on to...

  title with a 2-9 to 1-4 win over Park.

1980s

The 1980s saw Annanough resume their place as a football power within Laois although the ultimate honour of a Laois Senior Football Championship  victory eluded them, with the 1982 side particularly unlucky to meet a Portlaoise side at the height of it’s powers in the final.

Modern History

1996 saw Annanough return to intermediate ranks and after the ill-fated Annawood senior amalgamation with Courtwood

Courtwood

Courtwood GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association gaelic football and hurling club, located in the north east corner of County Laois in Ireland. The club is located in the eastern half of Emo parish with a small catchment area around the village of Ballybrittas and the local school Rath NS.The...

, the elusive sixth Laois Intermediate Football Championship

Laois Intermediate Football Championship

The Laois Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the second grade Laois Clubs. The winners of the Laois Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship and in turn, go on to...

  title remains the goal of this proud club.

Honours

• Laois Senior Football Championship: 6
  • 1891 Moyanna beat Portarlington (Captain: Frank Foley)
  • 1924 Annanough 1-2, Ratheenabrogue 0-1 (Captain: Dick Miller)
  • 1925 Annanough 4-2, Ballyroan 0-5 (Captain: Dick Miller)
  • 1926 Annanough 1-2, Abbeyleix 0-0 (Captain: Dick Miller)
  • 1951 Annanough 3-4, Portarlington 1-3 (Captain: Fran Nerney)
  • 1956 Annanough 0-14, Park 0-5 (Captain: Tom Gorman)

• Laois Intermediate Football Championships: 5
  • 1936 Annanough 0-10, Clonad 0-8 (Captain: Tom Dunne)
  • 1940 Annanough 1-5, Worsted Mills 1-3 (Captain: Matt Dunne)
  • 1946 Annanough beat Timahoe
  • 1949 Annanough 6-8, Barrowhouse 1-5 (Captain: Fran Nerney)
  • 1978 Annanough 2-9, Park 1-4 (Captain: Martin Stapleton)