Mattock Rangers GAA

Mattock Rangers Gaelic Athletic Association is a Gaelic football, camogie, hurling and ladies' Gaelic football club based in Collon, County Louth, Republic of Ireland.[1][2][3][4]

Mattock Rangers
Raonaithe Máiteoige
Founded:1952
County:Louth
Nickname:The Buzzards
Colours:Red and Black
Grounds:Páirc Mattock, School Lane, Collon
Coordinates:53.774747°N 6.481701°W / 53.774747; -6.481701
Playing kits
Standard colours
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Leinster
champions		 Louth
champions
Football: - - 4

History

The club was founded in 1952 and is named after the Mattock River, a tributary of the Boyne.[5] In 2020, the club adopted the Kells Road Buzzard as its mascot, following a series of attacks in a local beauty spot.

They won a Louth Junior Football Championship county football title in 1961 and a Louth Intermediate Football Championship title in 1982. Mattock lost their first four Louth Senior Football Championship finals, in 1973, 1976, 1962 and 2001. Senior success finally came in 2002; in that year, Mattock Rangers reached the final of the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship, losing to Dunshaughlin.[6] They have won three more senior titles since then.

The hurlers have never been county champions, but reached the final of the Louth Senior Hurling Championship in 2011.[7]

Honours

Gaelic football

Notable players
  • Mark Lenehan
  • Adrian Reid
  • Twinny
  • “Sourdough” Sean Gilsenan
  • The Butcher

Notable supporters
  • Fergal “Slips” Sheils
  • Skill’s friends Sam and Davy
  • Shane “Sloth” Maguire

References
  1. "Mattock Rangers GAA". www.facebook.com.
  2. "Mattock Rangers (@mattockrangers) - Twitter". twitter.com.
  3. "mattock rangers – Louth GAA". louthgaa.ie.
  4. "LADIES GAA - Nikki helps herself to a hat-trick as Mattock see off the Finbarrs". 12 March 2018.
  5. "History". mattockrangers.ie.
  6. "Relentless Dunshaughlin a bridge too far for Mattock - Independent.ie".
  7. "PressReader.com - Connecting People Through News". pressreader.com. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
  8. "Mattock Rangers defeat Kilkenny kingpins in Leinster final". Irish Examiner. 8 December 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.


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