Clonoulty-Rossmore 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 located in the parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

 of Clonoulty

Clonoulty

Clonoulty or Clonulty is a small village in the barony of Kilnamanagh Lower, South Tipperary in Ireland. It is also half of the Clonoulty-Rossmore parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly.-Location and facilities:...

 and
Rossmore

Rossmore, County Tipperary

Rossmore is a small village and townland in the civil parish of Clonoulty, barony of Kilnamanagh Lower, South Tipperary in Ireland.It is located in the District Electoral Division of Clonoulty West...

, five miles from Cashel

Cashel, County Tipperary

Cashel is a town in South Tipperary in Ireland. Its population was 2936 at the 2006 census. The town gives its name to the ecclesiastical province of Cashel. Additionally, the cathedra of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly was originally in the town prior to the English Reformation....

 in County Tipperary

County Tipperary

County Tipperary is a county of Ireland. It is located in the province of Munster and is named after the town of Tipperary. The area of the county does not have a single local authority; local government is split between two authorities. In North Tipperary, part of the Mid-West Region, local...

, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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. The Club is a traditional 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...

 club which is affiliated to the West Tipperary Board of the GAA.

History

Clonoulty-Rossmore were the second winners of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship, in 1888 and had to wait for 101 years for its second title in 1989, which was won again in 1997.

Clonoulty-Rossmore's first champion team in 1888 (21 aside) was Thaddeus Ryan, John Ryan, Pat Butler, Thomas Harney, William Kennedy, Patsy Hennessy,Cornelius Ahearne, James Garrett, James Ryan, Pat Harney, John O'Dwyer, Joseph Gould, Martin Condon, Edward (Ned) Kennedy, John Murphy, Patsy Kennedy, Thomas Byrne, Daniel Ryan, James O'Dwyer, Pat Ryan, Pat Harney. Substitutes: William Ryan, James English, Jim Quirke, James Ferncombe, Tom Hennessy.

The club acquired its club grounds in 1936, through the Irish Land Commission and completed its pavilion in 1957 mainly through the voluntary effort of the Club committee. Five club players have won All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

The GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1887 for the top hurling teams in Ireland....

 medals with Tipperary

Tipperary GAA

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 - Anthony Brennan (1945, 49, 50 & 51) , Joe Hayes (1989 & 91), John Kennedy (1989 & 91), Declan Ryan

Declan Ryan

Declan Ryan is an Irish hurling manager and former player. He is the current manager of the Tipperary senior hurling team....

 (1989, 91 & 2001) and Aidan Butler (2001). Delcan Ryan also captained Tipperary to an All-Ireland U21 Hurling Championship in 1989, and two All-Stars with Tipperary senior in 1988 (No 10) and 1997 (No 11)

Honours

• County Tipperary Senior Hurling
  Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
  The Tipperary Senior Hurling Club Championship is an annual club competition between the top Tipperary hurling clubs...
  
  Champions (3): 1888, 1989, 1997

• Tipperary County Senior Hurling League (1) : 2009

• County Tipperary Minor Hurling Champions (2): 1981, 1996.

• West Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship (13): 1930 (Clonoulty), 1931 (Clonoulty), 1932 (Clonoulty), 1933 (Clonoulty), 1951, 1989, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.

• West Tipperay Senior Hurling League (9): 1945, 1950, 1969, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1997,

• West Tipperary Junior Hurling Champions (10): 1936 (Clonoulty), 1944, 1945, 1956 (Rossmore), 1958, 1965, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1983.

• West Tipperary Minor (A) Hurling Champions (11): 1969, 1970, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1996, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2008.2010

• West Tipperary Minor (B) Hurling Champions (2): 1989, 2002.

• West Tipperary Under-21 (A) Hurling Champions (16): 1971, 1972 (Clonoulty/Éire Óg), 1973 (Clonoulty/Éire Óg), 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009.

• West Tipperary Under-21 (B) Hurling Champions (2): 1991, 1993.

• West Tipperary Intermediate Football Champions (2): 1986, 1991.

• West Tipperary Junior Football Champions (6): 1931, 1969, 1985, 1994, 1996, 2000.

• West Tipperary Under-21 (B) Football Champions (1): 1997.

External links

• Tipperary GAA site
• Official Clonoulty-Rossmore GAA Club website