Donaghcloney Cricket Club is a cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 club in Donaghcloney

Donaghcloney

Donaghcloney or Donacloney is a small village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the River Lagan between Lurgan, Dromore and Banbridge. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 972.-Linen industry:...

, County Down

County Down

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, Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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, playing in Section 1 of the NCU Senior League

NCU Senior League

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The club was founded by the Liddell family, proprieters of the William Liddell & Co. factory in the village of Donaghcloney. The Liddells were members of the North of Ireland Cricket Club

North of Ireland Cricket Club

The North of Ireland Cricket Club The North of Ireland Cricket Club The North of Ireland Cricket Club (often referred to simply as North or by the abbreviation N.I.C.C. was a cricket club in Belfast, Northern Ireland....

 in Belfast

Belfast

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and decided to establish a club in Donaghcloney for the recreation of the factory workers.