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| County: | Kildare | ||||||||||||||||
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| Club colours: | Red and White | ||||||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Tadhg Downey Park | ||||||||||||||||
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Cappagh is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland. A GAA county or County board is a geographic region of control within the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA originally based on the Counties of Ireland For more information see Kildare Senior Club Football Championship or Kildare Senior Club Hurling Championship. The Gaelic Athletic Association ( GAA) ( Irish: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael /'kʊmˠən̪ˠ 'l̪ˠuh County Kildare (Contae Chill Dara is an Irish County located to the southwest of Dublin in the province of Leinster. Ireland ( Irish: Éire, ˈeːrʲə is a country in north-western Europe. It was the Kildare club of the year in 1998. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar)
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History
Cappagh was founded by Paddy Butler and John Murray in the aftermath of the Easter Rising. They played Kilcock on Gaelic Sunday. A match between Cappagh and Kilcock in the 1921 championship had to be postponed when the Cappagh captain and four players were arrested beforehand by the British. Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Their grounds in Ballyvauneen were purchased in 1971 and their dressing room complex opened in 1995. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995
Gaelic Football
Kerryman Tadhg Downey played at corner forward on the 1939 Kildare championship team. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. At Downey’s behest, Cappagh adopted the red jerseys of the Dingle club, worn by Kerry in the 1938 All Ireland final. The Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA (or Kerry GAA) is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. They amalgamated with Kilcock 1938-41 and 1955-62 Jim Daly and Pat Lyons played on the Kildare team in 1950. For more information see Kildare Senior Club Football Championship or Kildare Senior Club Hurling Championship. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Hurling
Players hurl with St Coca’s.
Camogie
Founded on October March 5 1972 by Molly O’Donoghue and Lena Downey winners of 20 titles at under-age level and are the only camogie club to have their own pitch. The original club colours were grey and white, now grey red and white. Cappagh hosted the National League Division 2 final of 1980. In 1978 they became the first club in Kildare to achieve the senior-junior double.
Honours
- Intermediate champions 1946.
- Finalists 1944.
- Leinster Leader Cup finalists 1946.
- Junior B champions 1975, 1990.
- Junior finalists 1942.
- Junior B finalists 1978.
- Division 3 champions 1977.
- Junior C champions 1975.
- Junior 7 aside champions 2005
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. Eoghan Corry (born 19 January 1961) is an Irish columnist author of sports history and founding story-editor of the Gaelic Athletic Association The year 1984 in literature involved some significant events and new books
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