Clogherinkoe GAA
History
Clogherinkoe was founded in 1954 by Jimmy Donoghue and Davey Doran and won a Junior B championship within three years. They played in McKeever's field in Broadford until 1980, when they combined with Broadford hurlers to purchase a field, located in Balrinnet townland, 2 km southwest of Clogharinka village.
Gaelic football
Clogherinkoe were the first junior C champions to qualify for the Jack Higgins Cup final in 1977 when they beat Clane's Junior B team in the semi-final, having previously been the second team to lose the Jack Higgins Cup final as Junior A champions, and lost the final again in 1984 as Junior A champions before eventually succeeding at the fourth attempt in 1998. They won an Intermediate League double in 1962-'63. Won a Junior championship in 2012 and won an Intermediate Championship in 2020.
Hurling
Clogherinkoe players play hurling with Broadford.
Honours
- Kildare Intermediate Football Championship: 2020
- Kildare Junior A Football Championship: (4) 1963, 1984, 1998, 2012
- Jack Higgins Cup Winners 1998
- Kildare Junior B Football Championship (1) 1957
- Kildare Intermediate Football League Winners 1962, 1963
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.
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Honourable Players
- Padraig Gravin
- Pat Tyrrell
- Cein McMonagle
- Jack Robinson
- Aedan Boyle