Clarecastle GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association

Gaelic Athletic Association

The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...

 club in the village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 of Clarecastle

Clarecastle

Clarecastle is a village located just south of Ennis, in County Clare, Ireland. Over the past ten years the village has a rapidly increasing population due to its close proximity to Ennis, Shannon and Limerick, and also less than an hour away from Galway city....

 in County Clare

County Clare

-History:There was a Neolithic civilisation in the Clare area — the name of the peoples is unknown, but the Prehistoric peoples left evidence behind in the form of ancient dolmen; single-chamber megalithic tombs, usually consisting of three or more upright stones...

, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

.

Honours

• Clare Senior Hurling Championship:11
  • 1943, 1945,1949, 1970, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2003, 2005
• Munster Senior Club Hurling Championship
  Munster Senior Club Hurling Championship
  The Munster GAA Club Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1964 for the top hurling clubs in the province of Munster in Ireland...
  
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  • 1997
• [Clare U12A Hurling Championship]:?
  • 2010

Hurling

Clarecastle has been the home to many greats in the county Clare hurling

Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...

. These include Haulie Daly Pascal Russell John Callinan Barney Lynch Pat Healy, Anthony Daly

Anthony Daly

Anthony Daly was a native of Rahruddy, a townland west of Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland, and a leader of the local Whiteboy movement...

, former captain and manager of Clare, Martin and Stephen Sheedy , Alan Neville, Kenny Morrisey, Ken Ralph, Victor, Ger, and Fergie O'Loughlin,and 2008 Clare selector Fergie Tuohy.
Current high profile players include Jonathan Clancy

Jonathan Clancy

Jonathan Clancy is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Clarecastle and has been a member of the Clare senior inter-county team since 2005. Clancy is regarded as one of Clare's top hurlers for scoring.-References:...

and Conor Plunkett

For the 2008 season, the Clarecastle senior team was managed by Tommy Howard and trained by Fergie O'Loughlin.

External links

• Official Clarecastle GAA Club website