Milltown GAA

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Milltown
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County: Kildare
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Milltown is a GAA club in Kildare, which played a leading role in developing the games in the county.

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[edit] History

Joseph Kelly and Peter McCormick were the two mainstays of the early GAA club in Milltown, McCormick serving as secretary from its foundation on January 8 1888. RIC records from 1890 show that Milltown Harringtons had 60 members with officers listed as Pat Flood, Peter McCormack, John Tiernan and James Kelly. Nicholas Hannigan attended the 1889 convention.

[edit] Gaelic Football

Milltown were 1892 senior F semi-finalists. Pat “Darkie” Ryan came on in the second half of the 1928 All Ireland final. They created one of the biggest upsets in the history fo the Kildare SF championship in 1948, when they beat Raheens by 1-4 to 0-6 in their first senior championship match. Christy and John Dowling played on Kildare senior teams at the time. Miltown were one of the few Junior B teams to win the jack Higgins cup when they The third team to succeed in upsetting the odds was Milltown when they scored a big win over Johnstownbridge in 1967.

[edit] Honours

  • Intermediate F Champions 1947.
  • Junior F Champions 1944.
  • Jack Higgins Cup winnes 1967.
  • Junior B F Champions 1967.
  • Junior F League 1966, 1967.

[edit] 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.

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Kildare Gaelic Athletic Association
Affiliated Clubs
Senior Football Championship

Allenwood - Athy - Carbury - Celbridge - Clane - Confey - Ellistown - Kilcock - Kilcullen - Leixlip - Maynooth - Moorefield - Naas - Round Towers - Sarsfield's - St Laurence’s

Intermediate Football Championship

Ardclough - Ballymore - Ballyteague - Castledermot - Castlemitchell - Eadestown - Grange - Johnstownbridge - Kill - Monasterevin - Nurney - Raheens - Rathangan - Rheban - Sallins - St Kevin’s - Suncroft

Junior Football Championship

Athgarvan - Ballykelly - Cappagh - Caragh - Clogherinkoe - Kildangan - Milltown - Rathcoffey - Robertstown - Straffan - Two Mile House

Senior Hurling

Ardclough - Celbridge - Clane - Coill Dubh - Confey - Éire Og/Corrachoill - Kilcock - Leixlip - Maynooth - Naas

Other Hurling clubs

Athy - Broadford - Broadford - Ros Glas - Moorefield - Naomh Bríd - St Laurence's - Sallins

Underage Amalgamations

Cill Éide - Geraldines - Na Fianna - St Coca's - St Edward's