South West Junior A Hurling Championship

The South West Junior A Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the RCM Tarmacadam Carbery Junior A Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Carbery Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1925 for junior hurling teams in the Barony of Carbery in County Cork, Ireland.

South West Junior A Hurling Championship
CodeHurling
Founded1925 (1925)
Region Carbery (GAA)
TrophyFlyer Nyhan Cup
No. of teams11
Title holders Clonakilty (17th title)
Most titles Clonakilty (17 titles)
SponsorsRCM Tarmacadam
Official websiteCarbery GAA

The series of games begin in May, with the championship culminating with the final in September. The championship includes a knock-out stage and a "back door" for teams defeated in the first round.

The South West Junior Championship is an integral part of the wider Cork Junior A Hurling Championship. The winners and runners-up of the South West Championship join their counterparts from the other six divisions to contest the county championship.

As of 2019, 11 clubs currently participate in the South West Championship. The title has been won at least once by 13 different clubs. The all-time record-holders are Clonakilty, who have won a total of 16 titles.

Clonakilty are the title-holders after defeating St Mary's by 2-17 to 0-19 in the 2020 final.

The championship

Overview

The South West Junior Championship is effectively a knockout tournament with pairings drawn at random — there are no seeds.

Each match is played as a single leg. If a match ends as a draw there is a period of extra time. However, if both sides are still level at the end of extra time, a replay takes place and so on, until a winner is found.

Participating teams
Team Location Colours
Ballinascarthy Ballinascarthy Red and white
Bandon Bandon Yellow and white
Clonakilty Clonakilty Green and red
Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's Castletown-Kinneigh Blue and gold
Dohenys Dunmanway Green and white
Kilbree Rossmore Blue and white
Newcestown Newcestown Red and yellow
St. Colum's Kealkill Black and orange
St. James's Ardfield Green and gold
St Mary's Enniskean Black and gold
St Oliver Plunkett's Ahiohill Black and white

Qualification for subsequent competitions

The South West Junior Hurling Championship winners and runners-up qualify for the subsequent Cork Junior A Hurling Championship. Prior to 2017, qualification for the county series was limited to just the championship-winning team.

Trophy

The winning team is presented with the Flyer Nyhan Cup. A native of Clonakilty, John "Flyer" Nyhan (1892-1934) was a member of some excellent Clonakilty teams which contested the county middle grade hurling final in 1912, won the county intermediate football title in 1913 and then won the prestigious South Coast Railway Shields in both football and hurling in 1914.

Roll of honour
# Team Wins Winning Years
1 Clonakilty 17 1939, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1950, 1952, 1961, 1962, 1976, 1977, 1983, 2004, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2020
2 Courcey Rovers 15 1947, 1948, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1973, 1974
3 Bandon 13 1929, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1949, 1960, 1971, 1975, 1990, 1995, 1999, 2009
4 Kilbrittain 12 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1978, 1984, 1985
5 Newcestown 9 1967, 1969, 1972, 1979, 1980, 1988, 1991, 1992, 2014
6 Barryroe 7 1981, 1982, 1986, 1987, 1994, 2006, 2007
7 Ballinascarthy 5 1989, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2019
Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's 5 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2010
8 Dohenys 4 1958, 1959, 1963, 2013
9 Skibbereen 3 1931, 1932, 1933
Argideen Rangers 3 1993, 1996, 2003
10 Kilbree 2 2016, 2018
11 St. Oliver Plunkett's 1 2011

List of finals
Year Winners Score Runners-up Score
2015 Clonakilty Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's
2016 Kilbree 3-07 St. Colum's 0-12
2017 Clonakilty 2-21 Ballinascarthy 1-16
2018 Kilbree 1-18 Ballinascarthy 2-12
2019 Ballinascarthy 2-18 Kilbree 1-11 [1]
2020 Clonakilty 2-17 St. Mary's 0-19 [2]

Records

By decade

The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of South West Junior Hurling Championship titles, is as follows:

Gaps

Top five longest gaps between successive championship titles:

Winners and finalists

The Double

Five teams have won the South West Junior Hurling Championship and the South West Junior Football Championship in a single year as part of a hurling-Gaelic football double. Kilbrittain became the first team to win the double in 1926. Bandon are the record holders having claimed the double on four occasions - 1929, 1960, 1971 and 1975. Dohenys are the only club to have won a back-to-back double - 1958 and 1959. Newcestown (1967) and Clonakilty (1977) complete the list of double-winning teams.

Club sides Argideen Rangers, Ballinascarthy and O'Donovan Rossa also hold the distinction of being dual divisional junior championship-winning teams, however, these were not achieved in a single calendar season.

References
  1. "Ballinascarthy hurlers lift the Flyer Nyhan Cup for the first time since 2000". Echo Live. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  2. "Goals prove pivotal as Clonakilty hurlers claim 17th Carbery crown". Irish Examiner. 27 September 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
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