Two Mile House GAA

Two Mile House
Teach Dhá Míle
Founded:1885
County:Kildare
Nickname:'The House'
Grounds:Harristown Common
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Two Mile House is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in County Kildare, Ireland. The club grounds are located on The Commons, just off the Dunlavin Road in Two Mile House parish. Eircode is W91 RF84. The parish of Two Mile House is surrounded by the towns of Naas, Newbridge and Kilcullen.

Two Mile House won the 2014 All Ireland JFC Champions after defeating Fuerty of Roscommon 5-7 to 1-11 on 9 February 2014.

In 2018 the club won the Leinster Intermediate Football championship beating Tullamore Shamrocks 1-8 to 0-10


Gaelic football

Underage development only really began in earnest in the early 1980s thereby making Two Mile House a relatively young club in real terms. From the late 1990s until recently the focus of the club had been exclusively on Gaelic football. The club men's senior football team is currently playing in the Intermediate Championship and League Division 2.

Some of the notable achievements of TMH players at county level include:

  • Jimmy O'Connor won an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal with Kildare in 1919.
  • Maurice Colbert (also won a Leinster minor medal), Shane Darcy and Christopher Burke are all holders of Leinster Under-21 Football Championship medals. Adam Conneely won a Leinster u20 medal in 2022.
  • Peter Kelly won an All Star for the corner back position in 2010.
  • Mark Sherry, Chris Healy, Adam Burke & Richard Drumgoole Maguire won a Leinster minor championship with Kildare in 2013.[1] Mark Sherry captained the side and Chris Healy won the Man of the Match Award in the Leinster final.

Hurling

The club now fields teams at several levels in underage hurling and this is an area which continues to grow and develop.

Camogie

The camogie club competed in the 1950s and 1960s, beating Caragh 5-0 to 4-2 to win the 1967 county championship. The team got to the Leinster in the 1956 inter-provincial final, and also being selected on the Kildare camogie team of the century. Two Mile House camogie club revived briefly in 1991 and enjoyed many years of underage success until the late 1990s.

Honours

Notable players

References

  1. ^ Eugene McGee: Two mile house punching well above their weight, The Independent, July 15, 2013, https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/two-mile-house-punching-well-above-their-weight-29419959.html, accessed 27 Aug 2022.
  2. ^ "Healy the Two Mile House hero". Irish Examiner. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  3. ^ "All-Ireland glory for five-goal Two Mile House | Daily News | GAA News". GAA.ie. 9 February 2014. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2014.

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.