Crettyard
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| Founded: | early 1930's | ||||||||||||||||
| County: | Laois | ||||||||||||||||
| Nickname: | Cretty | ||||||||||||||||
| Club Colours: | Green, white and gold | ||||||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Newtown | ||||||||||||||||
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Crettyard Gaelic Athletic Association Club is a gaelic football club near Newtown in County Laois, Ireland.
The club was first founded in the early 1930's and it's colours are green, white and gold.
The club is located near the Laois-Kilkenny border.
The Crettyard club has never won the Laois Senior Football Championship but has won the Laois Intermediate Football Championship 4 times in 1965, 1976, 1984 and 2005.
Crettyard also won the Laois Junior Football Championship in 1961.
Fairymount was the name of a club in the area that preceded the modern Crettyard club and they won the Laois Junior Football Championship in 1952.
In 2000 and 2001, the Laois Minor Football Championship was won by St John Bosco Gaels, an area team with players from the Ballinakill and Crettyard clubs.
