Kill GAA
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Kill is a GAA club in Kildare, semi-finalists in the 1962 senior football championships. They combined with Ardclough to form area side Wolfe Tones in the 1970s.
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[edit] History
RIC records from 1890 show that Kilteel King O'Tooles club had 30 members with officers listed as John Lennon, John Buggle, William Walsh and William Dowling.
[edit] Gaelic Football
Kill won the Junior A Championship in 1960, but lost the Higgins Cup final to Eadestown. In Intermediate ranks the following year they lost to Rathcoffey in the Northern final. They stepped up and marched straight into a county semi-final. Olly Harrington scored their goal as they went down to Kilcullen, 1-7 to 1-5..Area side Wolfe Tones qualified for the 1971 senior football semi-final and a three point defeat to Carbury.
[edit] Hurling
Kill hurlers contested the junior championship in the 1950s. Kill players later played with Ardclough.
[edit] Camogie
Kill hosted the 1939 Leinster final in a field behind he church where the dual carriageway now runs.
[edit] Honours
- Kildare SF Semi-finalists 1962.
- Senior Camogie Champions 1957.
[edit] Bibliography
- Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, ISBN 0-9509370-0-2 hb ISBN 0-9509370-1-0 pb
- Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
- Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.
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| Kildare Gaelic Athletic Association (2006) | ||
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| Affiliated Clubs | ||
| Senior Football Championship | ||
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Allenwood - Athy - Carbury - Celbridge - Clane - Ellistown - Kilcock - Kilcullen - Leixlip - Maynooth - Moorefield - Naas - Round Towers - Sallins - Sarsfields - St Laurence’s |
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| Intermediate Football Championship | ||
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Ardclough - Ballymore - Ballyteague - Castledermot - Castlemitchell - Confey - Eadestown - Grange - Johnstownbridge - Kill - Monasterevin - Raheens - Rathangan - Rheban - St Kevin’s - Suncroft |
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| Junior Football Championship | ||
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Ballykelly - Cappagh - Caragh - Clogherinkoe - Milltown - Nurney - Rathcoffey - Robertstown - Straffan - Two Mile House - Kildangan |
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| Senior Hurling | ||
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Ardclough - Celbridge - Clane - Coill Dubh - Confey - Éire Og/Corrachoill - Kilcock - Leixlip - Maynooth - Naas |
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| Other Hurling clubs | ||
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Athy - Broadford - Broadford - Ros Glas - Moorefield - Naomh Bríd - St Laurence's - Sallins |
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| Underage Amalgamations | ||
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Cill Éide - Geraldines - Na Fianna - St Coca's - St Edward's |
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