Blackhall Gaels 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 the Parish of Kilcloon. The parish consists of the main townlands of Batterstown

Batterstown

Batterstown is a small village in the townland of Rathregan , Meath, Ireland. It is about northwest of Dublin, on the R154 regional road...

, Mulhussey

Mulhussey

Mulhussey is a village in County Meath, Ireland. It has a school, a castle with accompanying cemetery, a nearby church at the edge of the Kilcloon parish in Kilcock, and a religious antiquity, St Bridgid's Well, located in Calgath, a townland of Mulussey.- History :Mulhussey's first inhabitants...

 and Kilcloon

Kilcloon

Kilcloon is a parish situated in the south-east of County Meath in Ireland. The parish is composed of the six medieval parishes of Moyglare, Kilclone, Balfeighan, Rodanstown, Ballymaglassan an Rathregan. The medieval parish of Kilclone was in turn made up of the townlands of Kilclone, Pagestown,...

 near the town of Dunboyne

Dunboyne

Dunboyne is a town in County Meath in Ireland. For the most part, it is a dormitory town for the city of Dublin.-Location:Dunboyne is centred on the crossroads formed by the R156 regional road and the old Maynooth Road ....

, in County Meath

County Meath

County Meath is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Mid-East Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the ancient Kingdom of Mide . Meath County Council is the local authority for the county...

. The club plays hurling and football in Meath GAA

Meath GAA

The Meath County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Meath GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Meath, as well as for Meath inter-county teams.- Pre-1960s :...

 competitions. The club grounds are located in Batterstown and Kilcloon, and training and matches take place in both these locations on a daily basis. Blackhall Gaels are a young team and currently compete at senior level. Players are usually graduates of the local primary schools: Scoil Naisiúnta Naomh Iosaif, Mulhussey; Scoil Oilibhéar Naofa, Kilcloon, and Rathregan NS in Batterstown. The club won the Meath Senior Football Championship in 2003 after beating Simonstown Gaels

Simonstown Gaels GAA

Simonstown Gaels GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the town of Navan, in County Meath, Ireland. The club mainly plays Gaelic Football and competes in Meath GAA competitions. In 2003 and 2004 the team reached the Meath Senior Football Championship final.-Honours:*Meath Senior...

 in the final.

Honours

• Meath Senior Football Championship: 1
  • 2003

• Meath Intermediate Football Championship
  Meath Intermediate Football Championship
  The Meath Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition featuring clubs from Meath GAA. The winners of this championship get promoted to the Meath Senior Football Championship. In the 2010 final, Nobber defeated Carnaross. Each year, the final takes place in Meath's...
  
  : 2
• 1998, 2001

Inter-County Players

• Anthony Moyles
  Anthony Moyles (footballer)
  Anthony Moyles is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for St Oliver Plunketts ER and the Meath inter-county team. Moyles originally played for local club St. Pauls in the Junior Championship and was on a team successfully earning promotion to the Intermediate division...
  
   played for Blackhall Gaels from 2002 to 2009 before moving club. He was captain of the Meath Team
  Meath GAA
  The Meath County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Meath GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Meath, as well as for Meath inter-county teams.- Pre-1960s :...
  
  .
• John Meyler
  John Meyler
  John Meyler is an Irish hurling manager and former player,. He played hurling with his local clubs Our Lady's Island and St. Finbarr's and with the Wexford and Cork senior inter-county teams from 1973 until 1987...
  
   played for the club for years and was fantastic.
• Nigel Nestor
  Nigel Nestor
  Nigel Nestor is a retired Irish sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club Blackhall Gaels and was a member of the Meath team which reached the final of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in 2001, losing to Galway.-References:...
  
   played for the club from 1995 to 2005 before his retirement.

External links

• http://www.blackhallgaels.com/