Kilkerrin-Clonberne GAA

Kilkerrin-Clonberne

Cill Choirín-Cluain Briorain
Founded:	1888
County:	Galway
Colours:	Red and White
Grounds:	Father Stephen's Park
Coordinates:	53°33′30.95″N 8°38′55.79″W
Playing kits
Standard colours
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Connacht champions Galway champions Football: 0 0 0 Ladies' football: 4 9 13

Kilkerrin-Clonberne is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Clonberne, County Galway, Ireland. Its ladies football team have won the All-Ireland club championship four times in a row.

History

In his 'Annals of the GAA in Galway 1884-1901', Padraic O'Laoi notes that Clonberne - like Menlough - was initially a hurling club and was one of only 26 clubs in the county to play matches under GAA rules in 1885.^[citation needed]

Kilkerrin-Clonberne won the Galway Junior A Football Championship in 1992.[1]

They achieved Senior status in 1996 and have competed in the Galway Senior Club Football Championship up until 2015. They were relegated to the Intermediate ranks by a strong Kilconly side.^[citation needed]

Ladies team

In 1999, the ladies football club in Clonberne won an intermediate club All-Ireland. They were runners up in 2019 Senior All-Ireland Ladies' Club Football Championship.^[citation needed]

The club has won four All-Ireland Ladies' Club Football Championships in a row, from 2021 to 2024.[2][3]

Notable players

• Martin Breheny — played for, and later served as secretary of, the club before he moved to Dublin in 1979[4]
• John Divilly
• Shane Walsh
• Johnny Geraghty

Honours

• All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Club Football Championship: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024; Runners-up: 2019
• Connacht Ladies' Senior Club Football Championship: 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024; Runners-up: 2000, 2013, 2017
• Galway Ladies’ Senior Club Football Championship: 2000, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024[5]
• All-Ireland Intermediate Ladies' Club Football Championship: 1999
• Galway Junior A Football Championship: 1992
• Connacht Ladies' Intermediate Club Football Championship: 1999
• All-Ireland Senior Ladies Club 7’s: 2022

References

1. "Roll of Honour 1980-1999 Hurling – Football – Galway GAA". Retrieved 20 October 2024.
2. Walsh, Daire (16 December 2023). "Kilkerrin-Clonberne make it three-in-a-row as they prove too strong for Ballymacarbry". www.irishtimes.ie. Irish Times. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
3. Walsh, Daire (14 December 2024). "Magnificent Kilkerrin-Clonberne make it four AIB All-Ireland senior club titles in a row". Ladies Gaelic Football Association. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
4. "Shane Walsh saga shows why GAA need to take tougher stance on Dublin clubs' import deals". Irish Independent. 2 August 2022.
5. Glennon, Stephen (10 October 2024). "Peerless champions power to a twelfth title on the trot". www.con-telegraph.ie. Connaught Telegraph. Retrieved 29 October 2024.