Saint Malachy's GAC Castledawson is a Gaelic Athletic Club from Castledawson, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of Derry GAA and currently compete in gaelic football, hurling and camogie.
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| County: | Derry | |
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| Colours: | White and Black | |
| Grounds: | The Brough | |
| Coordinates: | 54°46′01.84″N 6°32′13.09″W / 54.7671778°N 6.5369694°W | |
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History edit
St Malachy's GAC was set up largely thanks to Paddy Graham from the townland of Tamnadace outside the village. The Graham Cup, a reserve competition for South Derry clubs, is named in his honour.[1] Although a relatively small club, they competed for several years in the Derry senior league.
Camogie edit
Castledawson fields camogie teams at U10, U12, U14, U16, Minor, and Senior levels.
Football titles edit
Senior edit
- Derry Junior Football Championship: 1
- 1958
- Larkin Cup: 1
- 1997
- McGlinchey Cup: 3
- 2007, 2010, 2013
- Derry Intermediate Football Championship: 3
- 2010, 2014, 2016
- Graham Cup: 2
- 2002, 2017
Minor edit
- Tommy O'Neill Cup: 1
- 2006 (shared with Foreglen)
- Minor 'B' Football Championship: 1
- 2015
- Minor 'B' Football League: 1
- 2015
- South Derry Minor 'B' Football Championship: 1
- 2006
Camogie titles edit
- Derry Premier Camogie Championship: 1
- 2007
Notable players edit
- Matt Sonny McCann - Former Derry and Ulster footballer.[citation needed]
- Dermot Heaney - 1993 All-Ireland Championship winning Derry footballer.[citation needed]
- Adrian Heaney - Former Derry Minor, Under 21 and Senior Player who was the Senior team captain[citation needed]
- Seamus Heaney, the 1995 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature played as a boy for Castledawson, the club in the area of his birth.[2]
See also edit
External links edit
References edit
- ^ "History: Club founder". Retrieved 6 September 2007. [dead link]
- ^ Carney, Jim (5 April 2020). "Why have football and hurling remained a cultural wasteland for our writers and artists?". Sunday Independent.
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