Clogherinkoe GFC

Clogherinkoe

Cloch an Rince

Founded:

1954

County:

Kildare

Colours:

Yellow and Black

Grounds:

Balrinnet, Carbury

Coordinates:

53°23′26″N 6°59′48″W / 53.390521°N 6.996789°WCoordinates: 53°23′26″N 6°59′48″W / 53.390521°N 6.996789°W

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Clogherinkoe GFC is a Gaelic football club in County Kildare, Ireland, the first junior C champions to qualify for the Jack Higgins Cup final. They formed an area team with Johnstownbridge, St John's, which reached the semi-final of the senior football championship in 1978. Padraig Gravin was corner-forward on the 1998 Kildare All Ireland final team. Pat Tyrrell was a noted Kildare forward in the 1960s. John Lowry and John Donoghue were major players for the team throughout the 80's and 90's. Both played on the Kildare senior team for several seasons.

History

Clogherinkoe was founded in 1954 by Jimmy Donoghue and Davey Doran and won a Junior B championship within three years. They played in McKeever's field in Broadford until 1980, when they combined with Broadford hurlers to purchase a field, located in Balrinnet townland, 2 km southwest of Clogharinka village.

Gaelic football

Clogherinkoe were the first junior C champions to qualify for the Jack Higgins Cup final in 1977 when they beat Clane's Junior B team in the semi-final, having previously been the second team to lose the Jack Higgins Cup final as Junior A champions, and lost the final again in 1984 as Junior A champions before eventually succeeding at the fourth attempt in 1998. They won an Intermediate League double in 1962-'63.

Hurling

Clogherinkoe players play hurling with Broadford.

Honours

Jack Higgins Cup winners 1998.
Junior A champions 1963, 1984, 1998. 2012
Junior B Champions 1957.
Intermediate F league winners 1962, 1963.

Bibliography

Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, ISBN 0-9509370-0-2 hb ISBN 0-9509370-1-0 pb
Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.

External links

Kildare GAA clubs

Football

Senior Football Championship	Allenwood Athy Ballymore Carbury Celbridge Clane Confey Leixlip Maynooth Moorefield Naas Monasterevin Sarsfields Saint Kevin's Saint Laurence's Suncroft

Intermediate Football Championship	Ballyteague Caragh Castledermot Eadestown Ellistown Grange Johnstownbridge Kilcock Kilcullen Kill Round Towers Nurney Raheens Rathangan Robertstown Sallins

Junior Football Championship	Ardclough Athgarvan Ballykelly Castlemitchell Cappagh Clogherinkoe Kildangan Milltown Rathcoffey Rheban Straffan Two Mile House

Hurling

Senior Hurling Championship	Ardclough Celbridge Clane Coill Dubh Confey Éire Óg-Corrachoill Kilcock Leixlip Maynooth Naas

Other hurling clubs	Athy Broadford Kill Moorefield Naomh Bríd Ros Glas Saint Laurence's Sallins Sarsfields

Underage amalgamations	Balyna (Clogherinkoe and Johnstownbridge) Cill Éide (Eadestown and Kill) Cúchulainn Gaels (Athgarvan, Ellistown and Kildangan) Geraldine's (Castlemitchell, Grangenolvin and Rheban) Killard (Ardclough and Kill) Na Fianna (Allenwood, Ballyteague, Milltown and Robertstown) Saint Coca's (Cappagh and Kilcock) Saint Columba's (Confey and Leixlip) Saint Edward's (Rathcoffey and Straffan) Saint Oliver Plunkett's (Ballymore and Eadestown)

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