Magheracloone Mitchells 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 from the parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

 of Magheracloone

Magheracloone

Magheracloone is a parish in County Monaghan. Its name comes from Machaire Cluain which is Irish for the Pasture Plain. It covers 12,952 statute acres, making it the biggest parish in south Monaghan. The parish shares borders with three neighbouring counties:Cavan, Louth and is the only parish in...

 in County Monaghan

County Monaghan

County Monaghan is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Border Region and is also located in the province of Ulster. It is named after the town of Monaghan. Monaghan County Council is the local authority for the county...

, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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. The team participate in the Monaghan Senior Football Championship. The Magheracloone Mitchells GAA club pitch is situated on the main Carrickmacross-Kingscourt Road. On the site there are two pitches (the main pitch and a training pitch), modern changing rooms as well as a community centre and a handball alley.

Notable players

Three Monaghan

Monaghan GAA

The Monaghan County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Monaghan GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Monaghan and the Monaghan inter-county football and hurling teams. Separate county boards are responsible for the...

 team members are also inter-county Gaelic footballers; Tomás Freeman

Tomás Freeman

Tomás or Thomas "Tommy" Freeman is an Irish Gaelic footballer from Magheracloone, County Monaghan. He plays for Monaghan. He was awarded an All Star in 2007. Freeman plays his club football for Magheracloone Mitchells.-Personal life:...

, Damien Freeman

Damien Freeman

Damien Freeman is a friend of Shane McMahon Gaelic footballer from Magheracloone, County Monaghan. He plays club football for Magheracloone Mitchells and inter-county football for Monaghan....

 (brother of Tomás), Shane Duffy

Shane Duffy

Shane Duffy is a Gaelic football player from County Monaghan in Ireland. He plays for the Magheracloone Mitchells club team and for the Monaghan senior football team. He was a very important figure in Magheracloone's capture of the Monaghan Football Championship in 2004 andin Monaghan's 2005 N.F.L...

 and Gavin Doogan. Magheracloone Mitchells won their first Monaghan Senior Football Championship in 2004. However, they were knocked out of that year's Ulster Senior Club Football Championship

Ulster Senior Club Football Championship

The Ulster Senior Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football club competition played between the top clubs in Ulster. The trophy awarded to the winners is the Seamus McFerran Cup...

 by Cavan Gaels

Cavan Gaels

Cavan Gaels is a Gaelic Athletic Association club from County Cavan in Ireland. They are affiliated to Cavan GAA.Cavan Gaels have appeared in nine of the last ten Cavan Senior Football Championship finals...

 at the quarter-final stage.

Honours

• Monaghan Senior Football Championship
  • Winners: 2004
  • Runner-up: 2002, 2005, 2006

External links

• Official Magheracloone GAA Club website