Knockavilla-Donaskeigh Kickhams GAA
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Knockavilla-Donaskeigh Kickhams GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association
club located in Dundrum
in west County Tipperary
, Ireland
. The club participates in both Gaelic football
and hurling
competitions Tipperary GAA
.
In that first year the club won the West Senior Hurling Championship and again three years later in 1938. The club won twelve further west senior hurling titles between 1946 and 1960. One player who was a member of all twelve of these winning teams was John Farrell. Between 1943 and 1947 the club also won five minor titles.
After the success of the previous two decades the 1960s saw a decline in the clubs fortunes until 1966 when a west under 21 hurling title was won and retained again in 1967 and the clubs first county title was claimed.
The 1970s and 1980s saw the emergence of the club as a dominant force in juvenile competition winning many under age titles in both hurling and football.
The late 1980s and 1990s saw this under age work bear fruit when the adult teams won West titles in Minor Hurling 1990-91, 1993, 1994, and 1999. County Intermediate Hurling 1992, U-21 West Hurling 1993, U-21 County Hurling 1994, West Junior Hurling 1987 and 1998. Before reclaiming The West Senior crown in 1997 and 1999.
Football titles were also won in U-21 1991(County). Minor 1992 (County) and 1999, Junior 1992. Intermediate 1993 and 1996 (County). Senior Championship and league 1998.
In the 2000s, the Minor and junior hurlers, Intermediate footballers have brought more titles back to the club.
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 located in Dundrum
Dundrum, County Tipperary
Dundrum , is a village in the barony of Kilnamanagh Lower, South Tipperary, Ireland ....
in west County Tipperary
County Tipperary
County Tipperary is a county of Ireland. It is located in the province of Munster and is named after the town of Tipperary. The area of the county does not have a single local authority; local government is split between two authorities. In North Tipperary, part of the Mid-West Region, local...
, Ireland
Republic of Ireland
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. The club participates in both Gaelic football
Gaelic football
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and hurling
Hurling
Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...
competitions Tipperary GAA
Tipperary GAA
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.
History
The club as we know it today was formed in 1935 when Knockavilla, Donaskeigh and Dundrum amalgamated to form The Kickham club. This meeting is believed to have been taken place at the newly built Chaplin’s house at the Convent Cross. The first officers were President - Rev Fr. Michael Quinlan, Chairman – Sean O’Dwyer, Vice-chairman – Paddy Cleary, Secretary – Con McCarthy, Treasurer – Michael Ryan (D).In that first year the club won the West Senior Hurling Championship and again three years later in 1938. The club won twelve further west senior hurling titles between 1946 and 1960. One player who was a member of all twelve of these winning teams was John Farrell. Between 1943 and 1947 the club also won five minor titles.
After the success of the previous two decades the 1960s saw a decline in the clubs fortunes until 1966 when a west under 21 hurling title was won and retained again in 1967 and the clubs first county title was claimed.
The 1970s and 1980s saw the emergence of the club as a dominant force in juvenile competition winning many under age titles in both hurling and football.
The late 1980s and 1990s saw this under age work bear fruit when the adult teams won West titles in Minor Hurling 1990-91, 1993, 1994, and 1999. County Intermediate Hurling 1992, U-21 West Hurling 1993, U-21 County Hurling 1994, West Junior Hurling 1987 and 1998. Before reclaiming The West Senior crown in 1997 and 1999.
Football titles were also won in U-21 1991(County). Minor 1992 (County) and 1999, Junior 1992. Intermediate 1993 and 1996 (County). Senior Championship and league 1998.
In the 2000s, the Minor and junior hurlers, Intermediate footballers have brought more titles back to the club.
Hurling
- West Senior Hurling Titles:
- 1935, 1838, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1997, 1999, 2006.
- West Senior hurling League:
- 1944 (Knockavilla only), 1947, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1977, 1982, 1993, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2006
- West Intermediate Hurling Championship.
- 1992, (County Title)
- West U21 Hurling Championship:
- 1966, 1967 (County Title), 1986, 1993, 1994(County Title), 2008
- West Minor Hurling Championship:
- 1941(invincibles, Kickhams/Golden), 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1951, 1955, 1979, 1984, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2007.
- West Junior Hurling Championship:
- 1931 Knockavilla, 1932 Donaskeigh, 1941 Donaskeigh, 1951, 1952, 1981, 1987, 1998.
- West Junior Hurling No. 2. Championship:
- 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1968, 1971, 2007,2010.
Football
- West Senior Football Championship:
- 1998
- West Senior Football League:
- 1998
- Intermediate Football Championship:
- 1985, 1993, 1996 (County Title), 2002 (County Title)
- U21 B Football Championship:
- 1991 (County Title),2011.
- Minor Football Championship:
- 1979, 1992,B (County Title), 1999, 2006,B
- Junior Football Championship:
- 1981 (County Title), 1992 (County Title), 2009 (County Title)