Three Rock Rovers Hockey Club is a field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 club based in Grange Road, Rathfarnham

Rathfarnham

Rathfarnham or Rathfarnam is a Southside suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is south of Terenure, east of Templeogue, and is in the postal districts of Dublin 14 and 16. It is within the administrative areas of both Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown and South Dublin County Councils.The area of Rathfarnham...

, Dublin. They are affiliated to the Leinster Branch of the Irish Hockey Association

Irish Hockey Association

The Irish Hockey Association is the governing body for the game of hockey throughout the island of Ireland.The Association was formed in 2000 with the merger of the Unions that managed the men's and women's game separately. These Unions had governed the sport of hockey since the late 19th...

. The club currently fields six men's teams and five women's teams in the Leinster Hockey leagues. The Club was Ireland's entrant into the 2008 Euro Hockey League

Euro Hockey League

The Euro Hockey League is an annual mens field hockey cup competition organised by the EHF for the very top hockey clubs in Europe. The competition was launched at the start of the 2007-08 hockey season, when it merged and replaced the mens EuroHockey Club Champions Cup and European Cup II...

 getting to the final 16 of the tournament.

History

The club was founded in the 1893/94 season by graduates of Dublin University Hockey Club.
The club initially played at grounds in Foxrock

Foxrock

Foxrock is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County, in the postal district of Dublin 18 and in the parish of Foxrock.-History:...

, before they moved to one of the Irish international venues at Londonbridge Road. When the club sold the Londonbridge Road grounds in 1981, it laid a water based SuperTurf pitch on new grounds at Grange Road. In 1988, Maids of the Mountain Ladies Hockey Club relocated to Grange Road and shared the facilities with Three Rock Rovers. On the 25 May 1999, the two clubs merged to become one club, the current Three Rock Rovers Hockey Club.

Honours

(List of honours complete for all-Ireland competitions - all others incomplete)

• Irish Senior Cup
  Irish Senior Cup (Men's Hockey)
  The Irish Senior Cup is the premier knock-out trophy played for by the best men's hockey clubs in Ireland. It is one of the oldest hockey tournaments in the world.-Historical format:...
  
   - 8 wins, 1 share.
  • 1897-98, 1907-08, 1938-39, 1952-53, 1958-59, 1962-63, 1963-64, 1973-74.
  • Shared 1961-62.

• Irish Junior Cup
  Irish Junior Cup (Men's Hockey)
  The Irish Junior Cup is a knockout trophy played for field hockey clubs in Ireland. Entry is open to sides that do not qualify for the Irish Senior Cup and to the second teams of clubs that play in the Irish Senior Cup...
  
   - 6 wins.
  • 1897-98, 1909-10, 1911-12, 1919-20, 1978-79, 1997-98.

• Irish Senior Cup (Ladies Hockey)
  Irish Senior Cup (Ladies Hockey)
  The Irish Senior Cup is the premier knockout trophy played for by the top ladies' hockey clubs in Ireland. The competition is held under the auspices of the Irish Hockey Association, a body that was formed with the merger of the Men's and Ladies' Unions in 2000...
  
   - all wins by Maids of the Mountain Ladies Hockey Club - 4 wins.
  • 1919-20, 1922-23, 1929-30, 1934-35.

• Irish Junior Cup (Ladies Hockey)
  Irish Junior Cup (Ladies Hockey)
  The Irish Junior Cup is a knockout trophy played for by field hockey clubs in Ireland, under the auspices of the Irish Hockey Association...
  
   - all wins by Maids of the Mountain Ladies Hockey Club - 3 wins.
  • 1922-23, 1946-47, 1974-75.

• Leinster Senior League (Men's hockey)
  Leinster Senior League (Men's hockey)
  The Leinster Senior League is a league competition for the first teams of men's hockey clubs affiliated to Leinster Hockey, a regional branch of the Irish Hockey Association.- Trophies :The Division One teams compete for the Moore Challenge Cup...
  
   - list incomplete
  • 1952-53, 1971-72, 1973-74, 1987-88, 2002-03, 2007-08.

Notable former players

• Richard Gregg
  Richard Gregg (field hockey player)
  Richard George Stanhope Gregg was an Irish field hockey player. He played for, amongst others, Three Rock Rovers and Ireland. Together with fellow Rovers players, Henry Murphy and Charles Power, he was a member of the Ireland team that won the silver medal at the 1908 London Olympics...
  
  
• Henry Murphy
  Henry Murphy (field hockey player)
  Henry Lawson Murphy was an Irish field hockey player. He played for, amongst others, Three Rock Rovers and Ireland. Together with fellow Rovers players, Richard Gregg and Charles Power, he was a member of the Ireland team that won the silver medal at the 1908 London Olympics...
  
  
• Don Fleming
• Neil Taylor
• Nick Reeves

External links

• Three Rock Rovers Hockey Club official website