Castlemitchell GAA

Irish Gaelic Athletic Association club

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Castlemitchell GFC is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in County Kildare, Ireland, who reached senior status in the 1950s and again in the 1990s from a small catchment area, and is home club of 1998 All Ireland finalist Christy Byrne. It is also the home club Tadhg Fennin who still plays for the men's senior team, a 2000 Leinster Championship winner with Kildare also scoring a goal in the final that day against Dublin.

History

The area west of Athy has had organized football since the foundation of the GAA. RIC records from 1890 show that Foxhill club had 50 members with officers listed as Lewis Higgins, Laurence Cullen and Thomas Malone. Joe Bermingham and Jim Connor founded Castlemitchell club in 1939 and were nicknamed the "sanpits". They purchased their own field in 1999, located about 2.5 km (1.5 mi) northeast of Castlemitchell village.

Gaelic football

Castlemitchell played in a replayed Junior final in 1943. They were promoted in 1945, contested the intermediate final of 1952 and won the championship in 1953. They won a junior championship in 1983 and an intermediate championship in 1992. Christy Byrne featured on the 1998 Kildare All Ireland team.

Honours

Kildare Junior Football Championship Winners: (2) 1983, 2015. Finalist: (1) 2014
Kildare Dowling Cup (2) 2011, 2012
Kildare Senior Football Reserve D Championship (1) 2010
Kildare Intermediate Football Championship (2) 1953, 1992
Kildare Senior Football League Division 2: (1) 1975
Kildare Senior Football Championship Semi-finalists 1959.

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

Official Castlemitchell GFC website

Kildare GAA clubs

Football
Senior Football Championship	Allenwood Athy Carbury Celbridge Clane Confey Castledermot Eadestown Johnstownbridge Leixlip Maynooth Moorefield Naas Monasterevin Sarsfields Saint Laurence's
Intermediate Football Championship	Ballyteague Ballymore Castlemitchell Clogherinkoe Ellistown Kilcock Kill Round Towers Nurney Raheens Rathangan Sallins Saint Kevin's Straffan Suncroft Two Mile House
Junior Football Championship	Ardclough Athgarvan Ballykelly Cappagh Caragh Grange Kildangan Kilcullen Milltown Rathcoffey Rheban Robertstown

Hurling
Senior Hurling Championship	Ardclough Celbridge Clane Coill Dubh Confey Éire Óg-Corrachoill Kilcock Leixlip Maynooth Naas
Other hurling clubs	Athy Broadford Kill Moorefield Naomh Bríd Ros Glas Saint Laurence's Sallins Sarsfields
Underage amalgamations	Balyna (Clogherinkoe and Johnstownbridge) Cill Éide (Eadestown and Kill) Cúchulainn Gaels (Athgarvan, Ellistown and Kildangan) Geraldine's (Castlemitchell, Grangenolvin and Rheban) Killard (Ardclough and Kill) Na Fianna (Allenwood, Ballyteague, Milltown and Robertstown) Saint Coca's (Cappagh and Kilcock) Saint Columba's (Confey and Leixlip) Saint Edward's (Rathcoffey and Straffan) Saint Oliver Plunkett's (Ballymore and Eadestown)