Crumlin GAA
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Crumlin GAA Club 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 in Crumlin, Dublin
Crumlin, Dublin
Crumlin is suburb in Southside Dublin, Ireland. It is the site of Ireland's largest hospital for children.-Location:Crumlin covers the area from the River Poddle near the KCR to the Drimnagh Road, to Bunting Road, and is situated not far from the city centre, on the Southside of Dublin city....

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Republic of Ireland
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Origins of the game in Crumlin

As far back as the 1740s Hurling was to be seen in Crumlin. The village was bordered by an area of “Common Land”. The most important game recorded at Crumlin Common was in 1748, between hurlers representing Leinster and Munster, a game which Leinster won by a late goal.

Club history

Crumlin Independents were set up in the early 1900s and lasted until 1935. St. Agnes’s Football Club was set up in 1932, to be followed by St. Columba’s Hurling Club in 1945. These two clubs catered for their respective games until the end of 1969, when they amalgamated to form Crumlin Hurling and Football Club. In late 1979 a new addition to the club took place when it was joined by Cúchulainn
Cúchulainn
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 Camogie
Camogie
Camogie is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women; it is almost identical to the game of hurling played by men. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and world wide, largely among Irish communities....

 Club, which had operated in the area since 1967. In 2007 the Club was renamed Crumlin GAA Club.

Facilities

Club playing pitches are located in Willie Pearse Park in Crumlin Village, and the clubhouse, which was opened in 1983 is located at Lorcan O'Toole Park.

Honours

  • Dublin Senior Hurling Championship Winners 1978 and 1979
  • Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship
    Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship
    The Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship is an annual Hurling tournament played between the winners of the senior club hurling championships of the counties in Leinster. The current holders of the Leinster title are Ballyhale Shamrocks from Kilkenny. The first Leinster senior club hurling...

     Winners 1979
  • Dublin Minor Football Championship
    Dublin Minor Football Championship
    The Dublin Minor Club Football Championship A is a Gaelic Athletic Association competition between the top teams in minor club football in County Dublin. The trophy awarded for the championship called the FitzGerald Cup. The current minor champions of Dublin are Ballyboden St...

     Winners 1976
  • Dublin Minor Hurling Championship
    Dublin Minor Hurling Championship
    The Dublin Minor Club Hurling Championship is a Gaelic Athletic Association competition between the top teams in minor club hurling in County Dublin. The most successful team in resent years have been Kilmacud Crokes...

     Winners 1976
  • Dublin Under-21 Hurling Championship
    Dublin Under-21 Hurling Championship
    The Dublin Under 21 Hurling Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the under 21 players of Dublin Clubs.-Roll of honour:-Under 21 B Hurling Championship:-Under 21 C Hurling Championship:-External links:***...

     Winners 1986
  • Dublin Under-21 Hurling Championship
    Dublin Under-21 Hurling Championship
    The Dublin Under 21 Hurling Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the under 21 players of Dublin Clubs.-Roll of honour:-Under 21 B Hurling Championship:-Under 21 C Hurling Championship:-External links:***...

     Winners 1987
  • All Ireland Club Camogie Champions 1985
  • Dublin Junior Football Championship
    Dublin Junior Football Championship
    The Dublin Junior Football championship is the Junior Gaelic Athletic Association Gaelic football competition of Dublin. The winners of the Junior championship go on to qualify for the Dublin Intermediate Football Championship. The winners will also represent Dublin in the Leinster Junior Club...

     Winners 2006
  • Dublin Junior Hurling Championship
    Dublin Junior Hurling Championship
    The Dublin Junior Hurling championship is the Junior Gaelic Athletic Association hurling competition of Dublin. The winners of the Junior championship go on to qualify for the Dublin Intermediate Hurling Championship in the following year...

     Winners 2006 and 2007
  • Leinster League Division 2 Hurling Championship Winners 2011


Crumlin are the only Dublin
Dublin GAA
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 team to win the Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship
Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship
The Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship is an annual Hurling tournament played between the winners of the senior club hurling championships of the counties in Leinster. The current holders of the Leinster title are Ballyhale Shamrocks from Kilkenny. The first Leinster senior club hurling...

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Current Teams

In terms of Adult games, Crumlin currently have three Hurling teams (Senior, Intermediate and Junior),two Football Teams (Intermediate and Junior,)an Intermediate Camogie team, and a newly-formed Ladies Football team. In addition, the club has a thriving juvenile section, with children from 8 year upwards playing Hurling, Football and Camogie.

Notable members

  • Brian McMahon from Crumlin was, in 1990, the last Dublin hurler to get an All Star award until Alan McCrabbe was awarded an All Star in 2009.
  • In 2007 former Dublin Hurling Manager, the late Jim Boggan, was awarded the inaugural Dublin Hurling Hall of Fame Award for a lifetime contribution to Dublin Hurling.

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