yew_tree
County: Mayo
Posts: 6986

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Gleebo - ballina has two clubs...Stephenaties and Ardnaree. You could also make a case for Castlebar with Breaffy practically a suburb of Castlebar.

Hi Yew Tree,

I was always thought that Ardnaree was a separate entity to Ballina (same as Bonniconlon), but not being from that end of the county, I'm open to correction. As regards Castlebar, the growth of the town has probably absorbed Breaffy to a large extent, it's true. Whenever I played Breaffy away, McHale Park was so close to their ground that we could cycle it in about 10-15 minutes. However, the identities of the places are still fairly strong and separate. If you try to tell anyone from Breaffy that they're from Castlebar, you'll get the contrary response fairly sharpish ;)

Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 02/11/2015 10:44:54    1803649

Four clubs in Cavan Town parish( Urney & Annagellife). Three senior Cavan Gaels, Killygarry, Drumalee and Butlersbridge intermediate.

evano11 (Cavan) - Posts: 265 - 02/11/2015 10:56:19    1803663

Gleebo - I am south Mayo man myself but Ardnaree post office is just over the bridge in Ballina so I assume the north side of Ballina (i.e over the river) is Ardnaree which is in Ballina town.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11236 - 02/11/2015 11:35:15    1803688

Tralee has 4 clubs

Austin Stacks, Kerin o rahillys, john mitchells and na gaeil

Blenerville could be classifed as Tralee too making it 5 clubs

onehoponesolo (Meath) - Posts: 21 - 02/11/2015 14:53:26    1803756

There's a small parish outside Mullingar called Taughmon that has 4 hurling clubs: 1 senior (Clonkill) and 3 Intermediate, Turin, Cullion & Crookedwood.

stonemadbeany (USA) - Posts: 543 - 02/11/2015 20:42:19    1803859

Duneane, Co Antrim - 3 clubs
St Ergnats, Moneyglass
Cargin
Creggan Kickhams

cpm10 (Meath) - Posts: 12 - 02/11/2015 21:48:57    1803885

Lurgan is nuts, you have Clann Eireann, Clan Na Gael, St Pauls, St Peters and Sean Treacys. Then you have Eire Og which is really in Lurgan too, with Wolf Tones about 2 minutes out the other road and Sarsfields and Aghagallon within 5 minutes of the town too.

geoff (Tyrone) - Posts: 377 - 03/11/2015 08:22:20    1803891

Ardnaree and Ballina Stephenites are Ballina town. However Ardnaree was part of Co.Sligo and has 1 if not 2 Sligo JFC titles before Queen Vic made the decision to give Ballaghdereen to Ros and Ardnaree and part of Castleconnor to Mayo.
The Moy acts as a natural border but doesnt count as far as the big club is concerned

Congrats to Ardnaree on their junior title this yr.

overinthewest (Sligo) - Posts: 119 - 03/11/2015 08:55:04    1803897

Geoff I would also include Co Down side Magheralin which is about 5 mins drive from Lurgan town centre. It is quite ridiculous how the town manages to sustain so many teams.

Éire Óg are very much proud of being considered a Craigavon team and they are not too slow to correct you if you say otherwise.

northarmaghgael (Armagh) - Posts: 40 - 03/11/2015 14:01:49    1804030

Cavan Town and its environs seems to have a lot
Town - Cavan Gaels/Drumalee/Killygarry and a 10 km radius then brings in Cornafean/Butlersbridge/Ballinagh/Ballyhaise/Drung/Lavey


Was always curious in Fermanagh - Derrylin has a club and so does Teemore which is a townland 2/3 miles down the road

ruanua (Donegal) - Posts: 4966 - 03/11/2015 15:03:01    1804065

"There's a small parish outside Mullingar called Taughmon that has 4 hurling clubs: 1 senior (Clonkill) and 3 Intermediate, Turin, Cullion & Crookedwood."

Mullingar has 3 hurling clubs (Clonkill, Cullion & St. Oliver Plunkett's) & 4 football clubs (Shamrocks, St. Loman's, Shandonagh & the Downs) in the town or in close proximity. No dual clubs in Westmeath (except Delvin) but plenty of dual players.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 03/11/2015 16:06:35    1804107

3 clubs in the parish of Mountmellick in Laois. None of them world beaters to be quite honest. Also 3 clubs in stradbally parish who are all struggling at the moment even though all 3 at one stage were traditionally strong.

downtheroad (Laois) - Posts: 21 - 03/11/2015 19:15:31    1804193

Clonkill & Cullion are not in Mullingar or Mullingar parish, they're both in Taughmon parish along with Turin & Crookedwood, Taughmon parish is only about 3500 acres in area,pretty small.

stonemadbeany (USA) - Posts: 543 - 03/11/2015 20:38:54    1804228

Must surely be in Laois where Arles-Killeen, Arles-Kilcruise and Ballylinan are 3 Senior football clubs from 1 parish

icehonesty (Wexford) - Posts: 2553 - 16/11/2015 16:15:29    1807640

evanoii - is that not 2 parishes. Is Butlerbridge not at least 6km from centre of Cavan Town.
ruanua - curious but looking up the website the smaller of those two clubs have most senior county titles
More than 2 clubs in a rural club is impressive. Two towns with many clubs are Lurgan and Dundalk -maybe 5+

browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2342 - 16/11/2015 17:23:20    1807669

stonemadbeany
County: USA
Posts: 236

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Clonkill & Cullion are not in Mullingar or Mullingar parish, they're both in Taughmon parish along with Turin & Crookedwood, Taughmon parish is only about 3500 acres in area,pretty small.

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Im pretty certain that Cullion pitch is in Mullingar Parish whatever about some of its players, what makes you say its in Taughmon?. Crookedwood draw a lot of its players especially underage from the Multyfarnham Parish. Clonkill have players from Mullingar and the Downs neither in Taughmon Parish . Its not as simple as one parish supporting 4 hurling clubs.Turin im not too sure but it must be hard for them with Clonkill flags flying from some homes beside their pitch.

Jack_Sparrow (Westmeath) - Posts: 1018 - 16/11/2015 18:26:16    1807691

In Roscommon where hurling clubs are scarce, one rural parish has two clubs , Athleague and Tremane and at one point in its history, had 3 clubs. Tremane has a very small area, a collection of fields but can always put out a large squad with gazillions of brothers. Also won a Connacht Senior Club beating Galway side Kiltormer back in the 70's.

facethepuckout (Roscommon) - Posts: 214 - 16/11/2015 19:55:42    1807719

Taghmon/Turin is the name of the parish & Turin, Clonkill, Crookedwood & Cullion are all in it. If you live in Mullingar town you can hurl for St. Oliver Plunkett's, Cullion or Clonkill.

Facethepuckout,

What was the third club in the Athleague parish?

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 16/11/2015 20:32:42    1807734

Bluefield, Keeper7. They played junior for a few years. Its a townland just east of the village.

facethepuckout (Roscommon) - Posts: 214 - 18/11/2015 20:32:29    1808351

I think there is a difference between Civil Parishes and Church Parishes. so while a church Parish might comprise 2 towns or villages a civil parish might only comprise one. also the Catholic Parish might differ from the protestant parish.

s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5518 - 19/11/2015 08:50:44    1808368