Kilcock GAA
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Kilcock is a GAA club in Kildare, winner of five county senior football championships and Kildare club of the year in 1982. Kilcock town sports pre-date the GAA. Davy Dalton was chosen on the Kildare football team of the millennium and an All Stars Award winner in 1997.
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[edit] History
Kilcock O’Connell’s were one of the strongest early GAA clubs in Kildare, losing to Clondalkin Round Towers by 0-2 to 0-3 at an August 1888 tournament. Christy Rochfort was the leading footballers and referee of the early teams. RIC records from 1890 show that Kilcock O'Connells had 50 members with officers listed as Robert Christian, Pat Griffin and Thomas Stapleton.
[edit] Gaelic Football
Tommy Kelly, the youngest member of the Kildare All Ireland team of 1905, was the outstanding Kilcock player of the beginning of the 20th century helping win county titles in 1914 and 1917 alongside Joe Rafferty, captain of the 1903 Kildare All Ireland team, another 1903 survivor Jack Dunne, and 1919 All Ireland medalists Kit Flynn, Joe Connor and James “Ginger” Moran. The rivalry, with Maynooth, particularly for the 1914 county semi-final did much to popularise the games in the north of the county. Kilcock won the 1937 Junior and 1938 Intermediate titles, lost the 1939 first round tie against eventual champions Ellistown, and reached the 1940 County Senior Final. The following year Kilcock were regraded, went to the 1944 Intermediate final, and ended up in the 1948 Junior championship. The slide was halted in two inches of snow when Kilcock beat Monasterevin in the 1950 Junior A final. When a senior player, Sean Byrne from Kilcullen, came to work in Kelly's bakery, Kilcock had to go senior if they were to use him. Only Addy Higgins had survived the decade from the 1940 senior final team. Davey Dalton, Pat Gibbons, Noel Moran and Larry McCormack starred on Kilcock teams that won three more county titles in a four year spell. They were coached by Garry Fitzgerald from Saggart, who had won an All Ireland with Dublin in 1942. They conceded three goals in the first six minutes of the 1955 finals before drawing with Sarsfields in one of the highest scoring and most exciting finals in history, 4-10 for Sarsfields, 3-13 for Kilcock, and Kilcock won the replay 0-9 to 1-4. Aidan Byrne scored the goal to give them the 1957 title and Billy Maguire two in 1958 to beat Round Towers for the second year in a row. After an objection-dogged county semi-final against Moorefield in 1962 which went to three replays Kilcock contested several more semi-finals. A spell back in junior ranks ended with the Junior and Intermediate championship years in successive years 1981 and 1982. Former Kildare and Meath forward Cathal Sheridan scored two second goals as Kilcock lost the 2000 county final, 2-13 to 2-7 to Moorefield having trailed 2-10 to 0-1 at half-time. Another poor first half performance (they were 2-7 to 0-2 down at half-time) cost them the 2003 final to Round Towers 2-14 to 1-9, Paddy Mulligan scoring a late goal.
[edit] Hurling
Kilcock competed in the 1903 Kildare hurling championship. Mick O'Brien played on Kildare’s 1960s All Ireland teams.
[edit] Honours
- Senior F Champions 1914, 1917, 1955, 1957, 1958.
[edit] Bibliography
- Kilcock GAA A History 1887-1987 by Micheal O'Muineog, Kilcock GAA Club. 1987, 479pp
- 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.
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| Kildare Gaelic Athletic Association (2006) | ||
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| Senior Football Championship | ||
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Allenwood - Athy - Carbury - Celbridge - Clane - Ellistown - Kilcock - Kilcullen - Leixlip - Maynooth - Moorefield - Naas - Round Towers - Sallins - Sarsfields - St Laurence’s |
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| Intermediate Football Championship | ||
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Ardclough - Ballymore - Ballyteague - Castledermot - Castlemitchell - Confey - Eadestown - Grange - Johnstownbridge - Kill - Monasterevin - Raheens - Rathangan - Rheban - St Kevin’s - Suncroft |
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| Junior Football Championship | ||
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Ballykelly - Cappagh - Caragh - Clogherinkoe - Milltown - Nurney - Rathcoffey - Robertstown - Straffan - Two Mile House - Kildangan |
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| Senior Hurling | ||
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Ardclough - Celbridge - Clane - Coill Dubh - Confey - Éire Og/Corrachoill - Kilcock - Leixlip - Maynooth - Naas |
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| Other Hurling clubs | ||
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Athy - Broadford - Broadford - Ros Glas - Moorefield - Naomh Bríd - St Laurence's - Sallins |
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| Underage Amalgamations | ||
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Cill Éide - Geraldines - Na Fianna - St Coca's - St Edward's |
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