Ballybrown GAA
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| Colours: | White and Green | ||||||||
| Grounds: | Ballybrown | ||||||||
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Ballybrown GAA club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in Ballybrown, County Limerick, Ireland. The club fields teams in both hurling and Gaelic football. In 2018, Ballybrown fielded teams at Senior, Junior A and Junior B in hurling, while also a team at Junior A in football. Ballybrown's biggest rivals are neighbours Patrickswell, the two clubs sharing 22 senior titles between them.
The club have two pitches in the village of Clarina. One pitch is to the north, towards Tervoe and one to the South, towards Elm Park and Breska Beg.[citation needed]
History
[edit]Ballybrown was founded in 1890.[1]
Ballybrown are the only Limerick club to have won Munster titles in both hurling and football, a feat achieved in 2018.[citation needed] Having won the Limerick Junior B City title, the team progressed to win county honors in late 2017, beating Castletown-Ballyagran in a replay. This was the fourth round in succession that the club had advanced via replay. The team had an unbeaten streak, winning City B league honors, County B League honors before winning the City B Championship and County B Championship. All games played in the Munster Junior B competition were played in Knockaderry GAA in County Limerick.[citation needed]
This title added to the Munster Senior Hurling Honours won in 1989 on the back of a period where the club won the Limerick Senior Hurling title in 1989 and 1991. After their first county and Munster title success of 1989, Ballybrown contested the 1990 All Ireland Senior Club final, losing to Ballyhale Shamrocks (Kilkenny), by a goal, on St. Patrick's Day in Croke Park. Patrickswell beat Ballybrown in their most recent county hurling final in 2016.[citation needed]
Ballybrown have been a senior club for the majority of recent years.[when?] The club were relegated from Senior hurling in 2005, but secured their return to the top tier having won the 2012 Intermediate Championship. This followed a number of final and semi-final defeats. They've remained a senior club since, contesting a number of quarter finals as well as a semi final (2016) and final (2016).[citation needed]
Ballybrown's underage teams have reached Premier finals in hurling, losing to Kilmallock in 2009 U21 Premier final. In football, Fr Caseys defeated them in the 2012 Premier Minor Football final.[citation needed]
In hurling, Ballybrown won the 2019 Limerick Minor Premier Hurling Championship, which added to the U21 'A' title secured earlier in that year. In 2020, the club secured back-to-back Limerick Minor Premier Hurling Championship titles, defeating neighbours Mungret St. Paul's at the Gaelic Grounds.[citation needed]
Honours
[edit]- Munster Senior Club Hurling Championship: (1) 1989
- Limerick Senior Hurling Championship: (2) 1989, 1991
- Limerick Intermediate Hurling Championship: (1) 2012
- Limerick Junior Hurling Championship: (2) 1913, 1967
- Limerick Under 21 Hurling Championship: 1991
- Limerick Under 21A Hurling Championship: 2019
- Limerick Minor Hurling Championship: 1977, 1988, 2019, 2020.
- Limerick Junior Football Championship; (1) 1981
- Limerick Junior B Football Championship: (1) 2017
- Munster Junior B Club Football Championship: (1) 2018
References
[edit]- ^ "Ballybrown GAA Club - Founded in 1890". ballybrowngaa.com.