Killarney GAA
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GAA Killarney are a former Football and Hurling
Divisional Team in County Kerry
, Ireland
and composed of players from the Dr Crokes and Legion
clubs. They have won 2 Kerry Senior Football Championships in 1949 and 1983 and 1 Kerry Senior Hurling Championship in 1969 and were beaten in the final in 1951.
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...
Divisional Team in County Kerry
County Kerry
Kerry means the "people of Ciar" which was the name of the pre-Gaelic tribe who lived in part of the present county. The legendary founder of the tribe was Ciar, son of Fergus mac Róich. In Old Irish "Ciar" meant black or dark brown, and the word continues in use in modern Irish as an adjective...
, 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,...
and composed of players from the Dr Crokes and Legion
Killarney Legion
Killarney Legion are a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland. The club was founded on a March evening in 1929 when a group of eleven men held a meeting in the then Temperance Hall in High Street, Killarney .-Recent history:In the 2007 Kerry Senior Football...
clubs. They have won 2 Kerry Senior Football Championships in 1949 and 1983 and 1 Kerry Senior Hurling Championship in 1969 and were beaten in the final in 1951.
Honours
- Kerry Senior Football Championship 2: 1949, 1983
- Kerry Senior Hurling Championship 1: 1969
- Kerry Minor Hurling ChampionshipKerry Minor Hurling ChampionshipThe Kerry Minor Hurling Championship is a hurling championship for players under 18 in Co Kerry.The Seán Lovett Memorial Cup is presented to the winners, it was presented by Kilmoyley hurling club in 1990 for the County Minor hurling championship...
3: 1950,1951,1952