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just wondering has anyone ever seen a map with hurling strongholds or pockets mapped out on a proper irish map? id love to know exactly where they are. by a hurling stronghold i mean more than 3 hurling clubs within a 10 mile radius or an area in a county where hurling is at least on a par or more of intrest than football. in my own region i have roughly mapped it to as far an extent as i can with my knowledge. id love to hear more from other regions though. and it seems to go in regions and across county boundries. dickie10 (UK) - Posts: 685 - 05/01/2017 19:29:59 1943324 Link 0 |
Ards peninsula in Down is the hurling stronghold with 3 senior clubs, Portaferry, Ballygalget and Ballycran. The 4th club with any real hurling history is just across Strangford lough in Kilclief. Suas Sios (None) - Posts: 1550 - 05/01/2017 20:33:34 1943344 Link 0 |
Not sure how you selected those Westmeath clubs as Hurling only as there's only one official dual club in Westmeath but it should be easy enough to do up a map and throw it up online. There do seem to be patterns alright. Jack_Sparrow (Westmeath) - Posts: 1014 - 05/01/2017 20:36:56 1943345 Link 0 |
Travel through north And mid Tipperary, in every club grounds you'll find an AED on the wall of the changing rooms and beside it in another smaller box will be a pen knife for puncturing any football that makes it's way into the ground. It's a hurling stronghold with little or no football being played by any of the clubs. GoldenVale (UK) - Posts: 22 - 05/01/2017 20:53:51 1943348 Link 1 |
Ballyhea, Newtownshandrum, Dromina, Milford and Charleville are 5 clubs that are within this radius The_Bull (Cork) - Posts: 248 - 05/01/2017 23:17:57 1943380 Link 0 |
In Antrim you'd go to one of the most Northern tips of Ireland, Ballycastle. South of that is Loughguille and Dunloy via Armoy and then east from there back towards the coast you have Cushendall. That is the home of hurling in Antrim and there's not much else that matters up around there. Indeed not even the county jersey can unite the clans of north Antrim but there are some savage contests at club level all the same. SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2385 - 06/01/2017 00:02:55 1943389 Link 0 |
take a look at this article on history ireland by Kevin Whelan- think he has a book on it too - a good run down of what you are looking for - 73forever (Limerick) - Posts: 89 - 06/01/2017 12:57:25 1943493 Link 1 |
well delvin have a football team, i should have put in oliver plunketts, crookedwood, who else in the rgion stopping south and west of mullingar?
dickie10 (UK) - Posts: 685 - 06/01/2017 21:18:55 1943611 Link 0 |
yeah i found that myself but it gives no indication of hurling stonghold of western Meath, eastern Westmeath or North KIldare which are all one region, meaning hurling is treated as at least an equal to football throughout this whole area. dickie10 (UK) - Posts: 685 - 06/01/2017 21:22:21 1943612 Link 0 |
Granted its an interesting article, but I think his hypothesis is a little dated and it doesn't explain why areas like Kilgaravan and Kenmare in south Kerry would retain a strong hurling tradition. The old flat, dry land = hurling country theory is more nuanced in reality.
TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 06/01/2017 22:21:48 1943628 Link 0 |
Great idea for a thread Dickie and some really interesting shares of knowledge here folks. Killarney.87 (Tipperary) - Posts: 2513 - 06/01/2017 22:28:13 1943629 Link 0 |
Roscommon you have Four Roads, Athleague, Tremane, Oran, Roscommon Gaels, Dominics all within a small area mainly along the River Suck (and formerly Ballygar too) manfromdelmonte (UK) - Posts: 541 - 06/01/2017 22:33:36 1943631 Link 0 |
There's about 4 miles between Ballyduff and Ballyheigue, hurling territory in north Kerry is a bit bigger than that. It's about a 25 square mile area in North Kerry from Crotta and Lixnaw in the east to Ardfert in the West, Causeway in the North and Abbeydorney about as south as it gets. TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 06/01/2017 23:05:00 1943643 Link 0 |
Castlepollard as well
Jack_Sparrow (Westmeath) - Posts: 1014 - 07/01/2017 09:01:05 1943670 Link 0 |
In Longford the 3 clubs Wolfe Tones , Longford Slashers and Clonguish are all in towns / villages one after another along the N4. Jack_Sparrow (Westmeath) - Posts: 1014 - 07/01/2017 09:10:25 1943671 Link 0 |
Ballymacugh Hurling in south Cavan is not far from the Westmeath border. Jack_Sparrow (Westmeath) - Posts: 1014 - 07/01/2017 09:13:12 1943672 Link 0 |
Mayo - Tooreen and Ballyhaunis, very close to the Roscommon border (Ballinlough/Castlerea would the areas closest on the other side of the border. Isolated pocket. Onion (Mayo) - Posts: 38 - 07/01/2017 10:13:05 1943677 Link 0 |
In Kerry we have 8 senior clubs all in about 20 miles of each other and to make it better: Jackos_Wacko (Kerry) - Posts: 417 - 07/01/2017 13:51:06 1943712 Link 0 |
Recently disbanded.
keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 07/01/2017 14:09:14 1943715 Link 0 |
Actually there used to be something of a hurling area in south Longford from Lanesborough over to Ballymahon with Cashel, Kenagh & Carrickedmond fielding teams at different stages.
keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 07/01/2017 14:12:15 1943716 Link 0 |