Glenlara 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 based around the rural area of Taur, Newmarket

Newmarket, County Cork

Newmarket, historically known as Aghatrasna , is a town in the Barony of Duhallow, County Cork, Ireland.-Sport:*Glenlara GAA and Newmarket GAA are the local Gaelic Athletic Association clubs.-People:...

, County Cork

County Cork

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, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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. The club plays Gaelic football

Gaelic football

Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...

 in the Duhallow

Duhallow

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 division competitions.
Glenlara GAA Club was founded in 1939 by D.A. Daly, P.Shine and R O'Keeffe. It took great courage on the part of those men to start a Club at the time, overshadowed as Glenlara area was by clubs such as Newmarket

Newmarket GAA

Newmarket GAA is a Gaelic football and Hurling club in Newmarket, County Cork, Ireland which is part of the parish of Newmarket and Taur.-History:...

, Boherbue

Boherbue GAA

Boherbue GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the village of Boherbue in the North West of County Cork, Ireland. The club plays in the Duhallow division competitions and their first team competes in the Duhallow Junior A Football Championship The club is a Gaelic football club...

 and Kiskeam

Kiskeam GAA

Kiskeam GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the village of Kiskeam in the North West of County Cork, Ireland which is in the parish of Boherbue...

. In total Glenlara picks its players from a radius of around two and half miles. In recent years Glenlara GAA have established a permanent home at the old school in Glashykinleen which is central to Taur and Glenlara area. The old Glashykinleen school is now their changing rooms and they have developed a playing pitch adjacent to this. Glenlara won the Duhallow Junior B Football Championship Final Group 2 in 2011.

Honours

• Duhallow Junior A Football Championship
  Duhallow Junior A Football Championship
  The Duhallow Junior A Football Championship is the top footballing competition in the Duhallow division in Cork. It was first run after the formation of the Duhallow division in 1933...
  
  Runners-Up 1956, 1958
• Examiner Cups Winners: 1954, 1958, 1970
• Duhallow Junior B Football Championship 1941, 1950, 1961, 1981
• Duhallow Junior B Football (Group 2) Championship 2011
• Duhallow Junior B League: 1984, 1988.
• Duhallow U21 B Football League 1992