Oranmore-Maree GAA

Oranmore-Maree GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the town of Oranmore and surrounding area of Maree, County Galway, Ireland. The club was founded in 1967 and fields teams in both Gaelic football and hurling. The club was formed through a county by-law which ruled that there should be only one team per parish, previous to this Oranmore and Maree had teams. Maree wore green and black jerseys while Oranmore wore Black and Amber. Maree won the Galway Senior Hurling Championship in 1933 beating Castlegar 5-06 to 6-02.

Maree-Oranmore GAA
Uarán Mór-Mearaí
Founded:1967
County:Galway
Nickname:Seasiders
Colours:Sky blue and navy
Grounds:Kings Tully fields and Oldtown
Playing kits
Standard colours
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Connacht
champions		 Galway
champions
Football: 0 2 6
Hurling: 1 4 5

The GAA club has provided many hurlers and footballers to the Galway Senior Hurling Team and football teams these include Pat Malone, who won 2 All-Ireland medals in 1987 and 1988 respectively, Richard Burke, William Burke, Aidan Divney, Michael Hanniffy and current members of the panel Gearoid McInerney, Niall Burke and Brendan Hanniffy.

The GAA Club has also a long tradition of winning under-age titles in both Hurling and Football and completed a unique double in 2014 when the Under 16 and Under 21 footballers and hurlers won their respective championships, this was followed by Minor hurling and football championship victories in 2015. In total the club has won 48 A county hurling championships and 32 A county Football championships. The schools around the parish of Oranmore and Maree have fielded some very successful Gaa teams over the years with Maree national school winning the A county schools championship on 4 occasions.However the Oranmore boys national school have certainly been not only the most dominant school in the parish but in the county also winning the Galway county schools hurling Championship on 14 occasions and the schools football championship on 22 occasions winning it 5 years in a row during the years of 1995-1999.

In 2019, Oranmore-Maree pulled off a stunning comeback against Charleville to win the All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship for the first time in the club's history. By all accounts, it was a fantastic day out for the Parish.

Achievements
  • Galway Minor Hurling Championship (3) 1963 (as Oranmore), 1970, 1989

Notable Players

Current Panel

References


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