Kilbrittain GAA

Kilbrittain GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the parish of Kilbrittain, County Cork, Ireland. The club fields teams in Gaelic football and Hurling, but is primarily known for hurling. The club participates in Cork GAA competitions. The club is a member of Carbery division of Cork GAA.

Kilbrittain GAA
CLG Cill Briotáin
Founded:1904
County:Cork
Colours:Black and Amber
Playing kits
Standard colours

History

Kilbrittain GAA club was founded in 1904. It has been primarily a hurling club throughout its history, though it did play in the Cork Junior Football Championship final in 1926. Hurling has always been the first sport in the parish. From the beginning, especially in the 1920s, the club had some successes in the South-West division, winning 6 titles in a row and again in 1930, 1938, 1940, 1941 and 1942. Yet despite all the success in their division, the club could never achieve the ultimate, the Cork Junior Hurling Championship. From the late 1940s until the 1970s, success was very rare. The first breakthrough came in 1978 when Kilbrittain, after a lapse of 36 years, again won the Flyer Nyhan Cup or the South-West Junior Hurling Championship. Although they were beaten by Kinsale in the Cork Junior Hurling Championship, the seeds were sown for the success that would follow. In 1984, Kilbrittain reached the final of the Cork Junior Hurling Championship only to be defeated by Midleton. Kilbrittain came roaring back the next year 1985, to defeat Cobh in the final to win its first county title after 81 years. In 1994 the Carbery divisional team won the Cork Senior Hurling Championship title with a strong number of Kilbrittain players on the team, 5 playing on the team with 2 subs. After competing 10 years in the Intermediate grade and being runners up in 3 county finals (1988, 1989, 1993) Kilbrittain won the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship in 1995. In 1996 Kilbrittain became a senior hurling club, the only one of the south west and south east divisions at the time. In 2010 Kilbrittain won the Cork County intermediate A hurling championship.

Achievements
  • Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship Winners (1) 1995 Runners-Up 1988, 1989, 1993
  • Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship Winners (1) 2010
  • Cork Junior Hurling Championship Winners (1) 1985 Runners-Up 1927, 1984
  • Cork Junior B Football Championship Winners (2) 1992, 2009
  • Cork Junior B Inter-Divisional Football Championship Winners 2016
  • Cork Minor C Football Championship Winners (1) 2008
  • South West Junior A Hurling Championship Winners (12) 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1978, 1984, 1985 Runners-Up 1929, 1931, 1933, 1939, 1957, 1959, 1965, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982, 2005
  • South West Junior A Football Championship (1): 1926 Runners-Up 1993, 2017
  • South West Junior B Hurling Championship Winners (4) 1946, 1951, 1958, 1967
  • South West Junior B Football Championship Winners (2) 1970, 1992, 2009, 2016 Runners-Up 1969, 1991, 2008,
  • South West Junior C Hurling Championship Winners (2) 1983, 1993, 2010 Runners-Up 1984, 2002, 2003, 2004
  • South West Junior D Football Championship Winners (4) 1982, 1984, 1987, 2003 Runners-Up 1986, 1988
  • West Cork Minor A Hurling Championship Winners (5) 1981, 1982, 1992 (As Seaside Rovers), 2002, 2006 Runners-Up 1960, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2016
  • West Cork Minor B Hurling Championship Winners (1) 1981 (As Seaside Rovers)
  • West Cork Minor B Football Championship Winners (1) 1993 (As Seaside Rovers) 2017 Runners-Up 1998, 2004,
  • West Cork Minor C Football Championship Winners (1) 2008
  • West Cork Under-21 Hurling Championship Winners (8) 1979, 1983, 1984, 1986, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2011 Runners-Up 1975, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2011
  • West Cork Under-21 B Football Championship Winners (1) 2011 Runners-Up 1986, 2002
  • West Cork Under-21 C Football Championship Winners (1) 2014[1]

Notable players
  • Dan O'Connell ( Cork Minor and U21 ll-Ireland winner, Played Cork Junior and Senior Hurling, Captained Kilbrittain To win Intermediate county in 1995, won Cork Senior Hurling Championship title with Carbery in 1994)
  • Micheal Holland, RIP (Captained Cork Junior Hurlers to Munster success in 1996, County Intermediate Hurling winner with Kilbrittain in 1995 and Cork Senior Hurling Championship winner in 1994 with Carbery, Successful coach with various club and West Cork teams)
  • Owen Sexton, (Cork Minor Football All-Ireland winner 1993, Cork U21 footballer and Senior Footballer from 1996 to 2006. Captained Cork in 2005. County Senior Football winner with Carbery in 2004 with 'Man of the match ' performance. Captain of Kilbrittain Junior B Football County winners in 2009, Intermediate hurling county winner in 2010)
  • Ross Cashman, (Played in various grades with Cork Hurlers and with Carbery Senior Hurlers. County Intermediate hurling winner 2010 and Junior B Football county winner in 2009 and 2016 as captain)
  • Jamie Wall, (Cork Minor and U21 Dual star, County Intermediate hurling winner 2010 and Junior B Football county winner 2009 with Kilbrittain. Managed Mary Immaculate College, Limerick to their First Fitzgibbon Cup)

References
  1. "Harrington scores 3-7 as Kilbrittain crowned South West U21 C champions". The Southern Star. 5 May 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014.

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