Castlewellan GAC

Castlewellan GAC
Naomh Maolmhoig Caisleán a’ Mhuilinn
Founded: 1905
County: Down
Nickname: The Town
Colours: Green and Black
Grounds: St. Malachy's Park, Castlewellan
Coordinates: 54°15′19.66″N 5°56′28.81″W / 54.2554611°N 5.9413361°W / 54.2554611; -5.9413361Coordinates: 54°15′19.66″N 5°56′28.81″W / 54.2554611°N 5.9413361°W / 54.2554611; -5.9413361
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Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Ulster
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Castlewellan GAC, December 2009

Castlewellan GAC (also known as St Malachy's GAC, or in Irish, CLG Naomh Maolmhoig Caisleán a’ Mhuilinn) is a Gaelic Athletic Association Club in Castlewellan, County Down, Northern Ireland. The club promotes the Gaelic Games of Hurling, Football, Camogie and other cultural and social pursuits.

History

The club was founded in 1905 and recently celebrated its centenary year in 2005.

Achievements

Welcome to Castlewellan GAC, a club with over 113 years of history behind us. We have over 400 members involved in our various sporting, cultural, administrative and coaching activities. We have teams at all age groups in Gaelic Football (men and women), Hurling and Camogie. Men, women and children of all ages and all sections of the community - all are welcome in the club. We are always keen to see new members joining.

1920 | Down Junior Football Champions (1st) 1924 | Down Senior Football Champions (1st) 1927 | Ulster Senior Handball Champions (doubles) 1927 | East Division Senior Football Championship Winners 1934 | Down Senior Football Champions (2nd) 1934 | Senior Feis 7’s Winners (1st) – GAA Golden Jubilee 1935 | League champions 1936 | Down Senior Football Champions (3rd) 1936 | League champions 1936 | Senior Feis 7’s Winners (2nd) 1937 | East Down League Winners 1940 | Club reforms after a lapse of 2 years 1946 | Senior Feis 7’s Winners (3rd) 1948 | Senior Feis 7’s Winners (4th) 1950 | Down Senior Football Champions (4th) 1950 | Senior Feis 7’s Winners (5th) 1952 | Minor League Winners (1st) 1952 | East Down Junior League (1st) 1953 | Senior Feis 7’s Winners (6th) 1953 | U16 East Down Champions (1st) 1953 | Club forms an Amateur Dramatic Society 1954 | First Club in Ireland to purchase a Club Bus 1955 | East Down Junior League Winners (2nd) 1955 | Down Division 1 League Winners (1st) 1956 | Senior Feis 7’s Winners (7th) 1957 | Down Minor Football Championship (1st) 1958 | Down Senior Football Champions (5th) 1963 | Down Division 1 ‘B’ League winners 1964 | Down Division 1 League Winners (2nd) 1965 | Down Senior Football Champions (6th) 1966 | Down Minor Football Championship (2nd) 1966 | East Down Minor League Winners (2nd) 1968 | East Down Junior League Winners (3rd) 1968 | Down Minor Football Championship (3rd) 1968 | Senior Feis 7’s Winners (8th) 1972 | East Down U13 League Winners (1st) 1973 | Scór Sinsear County winners of Set Dancing Section 1974 | All-County “B” League Winners 1974 | East Down U16 League Winners (1st) 1974 | East Down U16 Championship Winners (2nd) 1975 | U16 East Down League Winners (2nd) 1975 | U16 East Down Championship (3rd) 1976 | Minor Feis 7’s Winners (1st) 1976 | First GAA Club in Down to open a Social Club 1976 | East Down League Cup Winners 1976 | Junior Hurling Team formed 1977 | Minor Feis Sevens Winners (2nd) 1977 | East Down Reserve League Winners 1978 | New Pitch completed -Parc Naomh Maolmhoig officially opened. 1978 | All-Ireland 7’s Champions (Kilmacud) (1st) 1979 | Ulster 7’s Winners (1st) 1979 | Down Division 1 League winners (3rd) 1979 | Down Senior Football Champions (7th) 1980 | All-Ireland 7’s Champions (Belfield, Dublin) 1980 | AIB All Ireland Club of the Year (Category B)-Runners Up 1980 |Minor Feis Sevens Winners (3rd) 1980 | Castlewellan 7’s (All-Ireland Invitation) Winners (1st) 1981 | All-Ireland 7’s Champions (Kilmacud) (2nd) 1981 | Minor Feis 7’s Winners (4th) 1981 | AIB All Ireland Club of the Year (Category B) – Winners 1982 | Down Senior Football Champions(8th) 1982 | All County Division 5 League Winners (II’s) 1983 | East Down Reserve League Winners (III’s) 1984 | Club’s first U14 Hurling Team started by Dermot McCabe 1984 | All-County P.R.L. Winners (II’s) 1985 | U14 All-County and East Down League Winners (1st) 1985 | U14 All-County and East Down C’ship Winners (1st) 1985 | 1st Club Out-Door Music Festival-Parc Naomh Maolmhoig 1986 | U16 East Down Championship Winners (4th) 1986 | U15 All-County Og-Sport 7’s Winners (1st) 1986 | 2nd Club Out-Door Music Festival-Parc Naomh Maolmhoig 1987 | U16 All-County ‘B’ Hurling Championship Winners (1st) 1987 | 3rd Club Out-Door Music Festival-Parc Naomh Maolmhoig 1989 | Senior Feis 7’s Winners (9th) 1989 | Minor Feis 7’s Winners (4th) 1989 | 4th (and final) Club Out-Door Music Festival-Parc Naomh Maolmhoig 1989 | Scór na nÓg County winners in Set Dancing Section 1990 | Castlewellan 7’s (All-Ireland Invitation) Winners (2nd) 1990 | U12 East Down Championship Winners (1st) 1990 | Special Junior Hurling Championship Winners (1st) 1990 | Scór na nÓg County winners in Quiz Team Section 1991 | New York Invitation 7’s Winners 1991 | U16 East Down League Winners (3rd) 1991 | U12 East Down League Winners (1st) 1991 | U12 East Down Championship Winners (2nd) 1991 | Scór na nÓg County winners in Quiz Team Section 1992 | Castlewellan 7’s (All-Ireland Invitation) Winners (3rd) 1992 | Junior Hurling Feis 7’s Winners (1st) 1992 | Scór Sinsear County winners of Ceili Dancing Section 1993 | Castlewellan 7’s (All-Ireland Invitation) Winners (4th) 1993 | Senior Football Feis 7’s Winners (10th) 1993 | Down Junior Football Champions (2nd) 1993 | U12 East Down Championship Winners (3rd) 1993 | U14 East Down Championship Winners (2nd) 1993 | U18 East Down League Winners (1st) 1993 | Junior Hurling Feis 7’s Winners (2nd) 1994 | Down Senior Football Champions (9th) 1994 | U16 Boys East Down Championship Winners (5th) 1994 | Scór na nÓg County winners in Quiz Team & Solo Singing Sections 1995 | Down Senior Football Champions(10th) 1995 | U16 Boys All-County Championship Winners (1st) 1995 | U16 Boys East Down Championship Winners (6th) 1995 | Ladies All-County Junior League Winners (1st) 1995 | Opening of New Members Lounge, and Kitchens 1996 | All-Ireland 7’s Champions (Kilmacud) (3rd) 1996 | All-Ireland 7’s Champions (Castlewellan) (5th) 1996 | U12 Girls County Football Champions (1st) 1996 | U16 Girls County Football Champions (1st) 1996 | U16 Boys County Football Champions (2nd) 1996 | Senior Ladies – Senior County League winners (1st) 1996 | Scór Sinsear County Winners in Solo Singing (Aidan Rodgers) (1st) 1997 | Senior Feis 7’s Winners (9th) 1997 | Down Senior Ladies County Championship Winners (1st) 1997 | U16 Girls All-County Champions (1st) 1997 | U12 Girls All-County Champions (1st) 1997 | Open-Air Music Festival in Castlewellan Forest Park 1997 | Down Ladies Senior Football Championship 1998 | All-Ireland 7’s Champions (Castlewellan) (6th) 1998 | Junior Hurling Feis Sevens winners (3rd) 1998 | Newly refurbished Social Club Function Hall opened 1998 | U12 Girls All-County Football Champions (3rd) 1998 | U16 Girls All-County Football Champions (3rd) 1999 | Junior Hurling County Champions (1st) 1999 | Castlewellan 7’s (All-Ireland Invitation) Winners (7th) 1999 | U12 Girls All-County Football Champions (4th) 1999 | U14 Girls All-Ireland Feile Champions (1st) 1999 | U16 Girls All-County League (1st) and Championship Winners (4th) 2000 | All-Ireland 7’s Champions (Kilmacud) (4th) 2000 | U14 East Down Championship Winners (3rd) 2001 | Phase 1 of new spectator’s stand and additional changing rooms completed. 2002 | Junior Hurling Centenary Feis Sevens Winners (4th Feis winners) 2002 | U14 Hurlers – Centenary perpetual (G Hynds) shield (1st) 2002 | Purchase of 8.5 acres of land at Dublin Road for two new pitches. 2002 | Award of excellence for St. Malachys Park from County Board. 2002 | U14 ACL winners (1st) 2002 | Seconds Footballers win ACPRL 2002 | AIB GAA Club of the Year 2002 2002 | AIB County Down Club of the Year 2002 2002 | AIB Ulster GAA Club of the Year 2002 2003 | Junior Hurling Feis 7’s Winners (5th Feis winners) 2003 | Minor Feis Sevens Winners (5th) 2003 | Minor All County ‘B’Championship Winners (1st) 2003 | U16 Girls All-County League Winners (2nd) 2003 | U16 Boys East Down Championship Winners (7th) 2003 | Down Senior Ladies Champions (2nd) 2003 | Ladies All-County Senior league Winners (2nd) 2003 | U16 All-County ‘B’ Hurling Championship Winners (2nd) 2003 | East Down Scór Achievement Award 2003 | AIB County Down Club of the Year (2nd) 2004 | U14 boys Leeds Irish festival football tournament winners 2004 | U14 boys East Down ‘B’ Football Champions (3rd) 2004 | U16 boys East Down Football Champions(8th) 2004 | U16 boys All-County Football Champions(3rd) 2004 | U16 Girls All-County League winners League winners(3rd) 2004 | U16 Boys ‘Peter Walsh’ Tournament Winners (1st) 2004 | Bengy Toner selected as centre half back on the Club Down ‘Giants of the Game’ (Player’s who had missed out on All-Ireland’ glory) 2004 | Mickey McVeigh selected on the Irish News Team of the Decade 2004 | Commencement of Dublin Road Playing fields(Sept 15) 2004 | Castlewellan Sevens 25th Year Jubilee Sevens . 2004 | Award of Excellence for St Malachy’s Park from County Board (2nd). 2004 | Minor East Down League winners 2005 | Minor – East Down League winners 2005 2005 | Down Ladies Senior Football Championship 2005 | The 2005 Centenary Committee 2005 | U16 boys Hurling Shield Winners 2005 | Scor County Champions 2005 | Launch of Club History Book “THE TOWN” 2006 | Minor – East Down League Winners 2006 2006 | McNamee Award for best Club Media Production 2006 | All-Ireland 7’s Champions (Kilmacud) (5th) 2006 | Down Minor Football Championship (4th) 2007 | Scór Sinsear County winners of Solo Singing Section (Ciara McCrickard) 2007 | Scor Na Og County and Ulster winners Instrumental – Orla McCrickard, Niall McCrickard, Emer Walsh; 2007 | New Club pitch completed Dublin Road; 2007 | All County Premier Reserve League winners; 2007 | All county U16 B Hurling Shield winners; 2008 | Senior Feis Sevens Champions (11th) 2008 | U12 Camogie County Champions and League winners (1st) 2008 | Girl’s U14 C League Winners (2nd) 2008 | Girls U12 ALL COUNTY FOOTBALL LEAGUE WINNERS (5th) 2008 | Senior Ladies – Senior County League winners (3rd) 2008 | All County Reserve Football (3rd’s) Championship (1st) 2009 | 3rds Footballers – County Reserve Football Championship Winners 2009 | Senior Hurlers – Ulster Hurling League Division 5 Winners 2009 | U16 Girls Football – County B Championship Winners 2009 | U14 Girls Football – County Championship Winners 2009 | U14 Hurlers – County Shield Winners Winners 2009 | Lá Na gClub: 125th Anniversary of the GAA – Naming of the stand – Ardán Phádraig De Rís 2010 | New floodlights installed on Dublin Road Pitches 2010 | Senior Hurlers – Junior Hurling Feis 7’s winner (6th) 2010 | U16 Boys Footballers – Inaugural Winners of County U16 7-a-side competition 2010 | U16 boys Hurling Shield Winners 2010 | U14 Boys Footballers –East Down League Winners 2010 | U14 Hurlers – County Feile Shield Winners 2010 | U14 Girls Football – County Championship Winner 2010 | U14 Girls Football – County League Winners (3rd) 2010 | U14 Camogie – County Feile Shield Winners (1st)

Notable players

  • Pat Rice Member of the Down Senior team and won an Ulster & All-Ireland medal in 1960 & 1961. He also won a Down Senior Championship medals in 1965.
  • Colm McAlarney was a member of the Down Senior team from the 1960s until the 1980s. McAlarney is the only player to have won Railway Cup winners' medals in each of three decades. Colm was center back on the Down minor team that lost the All-Ireland Minor Final in 1966. He played midfield for the All-Ireland winning Down senior team of 1968, who defeated Kerry in the final. He was awarded man of the match for his performance in the 1968 All-Ireland final. All Stars in 1975 & 1978. He also won two Down Senior Championship medals in 1979 & 1982.
  • Mickey McVeigh played for Down 1995-2007 2 Irish News Ulster All- stars team of the decade 1994-2004 won Railway cups with ulster. He also won two Down Senior Championship medals in 1994 & 1995.
  • Martin Laverty captained the Down minors & U21 Teams. Member of the Down Senior team and won an Ulster & All-Ireland medal in 1991. He also won two Down Senior Championship medals in 1994 & 1995.
  • Kevan Owens Member of the Down Senior team and won an Ulster & All-Ireland medal in 1991. He also won two Down Senior Championship medals in 1994 & 1995.
  • Gerard Lych Member of the Down Senior team and won an Ulster & All-Ireland medal in 1991
  • Ciaran McCabe Member of the Down Senior team and won an Ulster & All-Ireland medal in 1994. He also won two Down Senior Championship medals in 1994 & 1995.
  • Gergroy McCartan from Ballymartin but moved to Castlewellan won an All-Ireland in 1991 & 1994 & all-Star 1994 Irish News Ulster All-Stars 1996
  • Kevin Duffin All Ireland Minor medal winner 2005. Irish News All Star 2015
  • Daniel Morgan Club Down All Star 2015
  • Aidan Burns played for Down 2012, 2013. Irish News and Club Down All Star winner 2015
  • Michael Cunningham former Down Goalkeeper

See also


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