Castledawson GAC
{{Short description|Derry-based Gaelic games club}}
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Saint Malachy's GAC Castledawson is a Gaelic Athletic Club from Castledawson, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of Derry GAA and currently compete in gaelic football, hurling and camogie.
History
St Malachy's GAC was set up largely thanks to Paddy Graham from the townland of Tamnadace outside the village. The Graham Cup, a reserve competition for South Derry clubs, is named in his honour.{{cite web |url= http://www.castledawsongac.com/History/founder/|title= History: Club founder|accessdate=2007-09-06 |format= |work= }} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} Although a relatively small club, they competed for several years in the Derry senior league.
Camogie
Football titles
=Senior=
- Derry Junior Football Championship: 1
- 1958
- Larkin Cup: 1
- 1997
- McGlinchey Cup: 3
- 2007, 2010, 2013
- Derry Intermediate Football Championship: 3
- 2010, 2014, 2016
- Graham Cup: 2
- 2002, 2017
=Minor=
- Tommy O'Neill Cup: 1
- 2006 (shared with Foreglen)
- Minor 'B' Football Championship: 1
- 2015
- Minor 'B' Football League: 1
- 2015
- South Derry Minor 'B' Football Championship: 1
- 2006
Camogie titles
- Derry Premier Camogie Championship: 1
- 2007
Notable players
- Matt Sonny McCann - Former Derry and Ulster footballer.{{fact|date=May 2024}}
- Dermot Heaney - 1993 All-Ireland Championship winning Derry footballer.{{fact|date=May 2024}}
- Adrian Heaney - Former Derry Minor, Under 21 and Senior Player who was the Senior team captain{{fact|date=May 2024}}
- Seamus Heaney, the 1995 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature played as a boy for Castledawson, the club in the area of his birth.{{cite news|first=Jim|last=Carney|authorlink=Jim Carney (poet)|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/why-have-football-and-hurling-remained-a-cultural-wasteland-for-our-writers-and-artists-39103123.html|title=Why have football and hurling remained a cultural wasteland for our writers and artists?|work=Sunday Independent|date=5 April 2020}}
See also
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080409221641/http://www.castledawsongac.com/ St Malachy's GAC website]
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Derry clubs}}
Category:Gaelic games clubs in County Londonderry
Category:Gaelic football clubs in County Londonderry
Category:Gaelic games clubs established in 1932
Category:1932 establishments in Northern Ireland
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