Two Mile House GAA#Camogie
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{{Infobox GAA club
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| irish = Teach Dhá Míle
| county = Kildare
| Eircode = Test|
| nickname = 'The House'
| grounds = Harristown Common
| founded = 1885
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Two Mile House is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in County Kildare, Ireland. The club grounds are located on The Commons, just off the Dunlavin Road in Two Mile House parish. Eircode is W91 RF84. The parish of Two Mile House is surrounded by the towns of Naas, Newbridge and Kilcullen.
Two Mile House won the 2014 All Ireland JFC Champions after defeating Fuerty of Roscommon 5-7 to 1-11 on 9 February 2014.
In 2018, the club won the Leinster Intermediate Football championship beating Shamrocks GAA from Offaly on a score of 1-8 to 0-10.{{fact|date=April 2025}}
Gaelic football
Underage development only really began in earnest in the early 1980s thereby making Two Mile House a relatively young club in real terms.{{or-inline|date=April 2025}} From the late 1990s until recently,{{when?|date=April 2025}} the focus of the club had been exclusively on Gaelic football. The club men's senior football team is currently{{when?|date=April 2025}} playing in the Intermediate Championship and League Division 2.
Some of the notable achievements of TMH players at county level include:{{or-inline|date=April 2025}}
- Jimmy O'Connor won an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal with Kildare in 1919.
- Maurice Colbert (also won a Leinster minor medal), Shane Darcy and Christopher Burke are all holders of Leinster Under-21 Football Championship medals. Adam Conneely won a Leinster u20 medal in 2022.{{fact|date=April 2025}}
- Peter Kelly won an All Star for the corner back position in 2010.
- Mark Sherry, Chris Healy, Adam Burke & Richard Drumgoole Maguire won a Leinster minor championship with Kildare in 2013.Eugene McGee: Two mile house punching well above their weight, The Independent, July 15, 2013, https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/two-mile-house-punching-well-above-their-weight-29419959.html, accessed 27 Aug 2022. Mark Sherry captained the side and Chris Healy won the Man of the Match Award in the Leinster final.
Hurling
The club also fields teams at several levels in underage hurling.{{fact|date=April 2025}}
Camogie
A camogie club, representing the area, competed in the 1950s and 1960s. It beat Caragh 5-0 to 4-2 to win the 1967 county championship. The team got to the Leinster in the 1956 inter-provincial final, and also being selected on the Kildare camogie team of the century.{{fact|date=April 2025}} Two Mile House camogie club revived briefly in 1991 and had several years of underage success until the late 1990s.{{fact|date=April 2025}}
Honours
- Kildare Intermediate Football Champions 2018.
- Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship 2018.
- Leinster Junior Club Football Championship 2013{{cite web |url=http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/football/healy-the-two-mile-house-hero-251295.html |title=Healy the Two Mile House hero |accessdate=2 December 2013 |work=Irish Examiner |publisher= |date=2 December 2013}}
- All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship: 2014{{cite web|url=http://www.gaa.ie/gaa-news-and-videos/daily-news/1/0902141600-all-ireland-glory-for-five-goal-two-mile-house/ |title=All-Ireland glory for five-goal Two Mile House | Daily News | GAA News |publisher=GAA.ie |date=2014-02-09 |access-date=2014-03-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223050338/http://www.gaa.ie/gaa-news-and-videos/daily-news/1/0902141600-all-ireland-glory-for-five-goal-two-mile-house/ |archive-date=2014-02-23 |df= }}
- Kildare Junior A Championship: 1994, 2013
- Kildare Junior C Football Championship 1979
- Kildare Junior Football League 1935, 1979
- Kildare Senior Camogie Championship: 1967
- The Leinster Leader Junior Club Cup 2000
- Kildare Junior B Football Championship and League 2004
- Kildare Minor Football League Div 4 2005.
- Kildare Minor B Football Championship 2006, 2017
- Kildare Senior Football League Division 3: 2008, 2013, 2017
- Dowling Cup 2013
- Jack Higgins Cup 2013
Notable players
References
{{Reflist}}
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.
External links
- [http://kildare.gaa.ie/ Kildare GAA site]
- [http://www.clubgaa.ie/kildare/ Kildare GAA club sites]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091015060446/http://twomilehousegaa.com/ Club website]
- [http://www.hoganstand.com/Kildare/ Kildare on Hoganstand.com]
- [http://twomilehousegaa.ie/ Two Mile House GAA]
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