Buttevant GAA club is a

Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sports, amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports o ...

club located in the town of

Buttevant Buttevant (; ) is a medieval market town in County Cork, Ireland. The town was incorporated by charter of Edward III in the 14th century. While there are reasons to suggest that the town may occupy the site of an earlier settlement of the Do ...

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. The club was founded in 1884 and fields teams in both

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and

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. The club is a member of the Avondhu divisional board. Buttevant GAA are commonly known as "the bumble bees".

History

Founded in 1884 by Fr. Con Buckley (who attended the inaugural meeting of the GAA in Hayes Hotel in Thurles in the same year), Buttevant GAA has fielded teams in hurling and football since that time. The club has played in the former British Army barracks since 1922, and officially took over the grounds from the state in the 1950s. In 1926, the club's Intermediate Footballers won the Cork County Championship. The club also contested and lost the Intermediate Hurling Final in the same year. After numerous attempts, the club finally won the Cork Intermediate Hurling Final in 1940. Club members, to have represented

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, include All-Ireland winning fullback Batt Thornhill, dual player Billy Mackessey (who won All Ireland hurling and football medals in 1903 and 1911), Peter O'Grady (who won an All Ireland hurling medal in the 1930s), and Tommy O'Sullivan (who scored the winning goal in the 1952 All Ireland hurling final and collected another All Ireland medal in 1953). In the 1960s, the juvenile section of the club was formed and several North Cork titles were won in both codes at underage levels. The juvenile section's hurlers won the club's first North Cork Junior Hurling A title in 2010 and the Junior Footballers contesting, and losing to Mitchelstown, the Club's first North Cork Junior final in 2013. The Minor A footballers got to the county final in 2013, losing to Castlehaven. The club won this title two years later when the side beat Macroom in October 2015.

Honours

Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship The Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork IAHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Cork County Board ...

(1): 1940 *

Cork Intermediate Football Championship The Cork Intermediate A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as McCarthy Insurance Group Cork County Intermediate A Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork IAFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the ...

(1): 1926 * Cork Junior B Hurling Championship (2): 1996, 2024 * Cork Junior B Football Championship (0): (runners-up in 1984, 1991) * North Cork Premier Minor Football (1): 1978 * North Cork Premier Minor Hurling (1): 1983 * North Cork Premier Minor hurling (1): 1984. * North Cork Minor A Football Champions (3): 2013, 2015, 2020 * North Cork Junior A Hurling Championship (1): 2010 * North Cork Junior A Football Championship (2): 2017, 2022 (runners-up in 2013) * North Cork Junior B1 Hurling Championship (1): 2024 * Cork County Minor A Football Championship (1): 2015 * Cork County Minor Premier 2 Football Championship (1): 2016

Notable players

* Batt Thornhill

References

External links

Buttevant GAA site
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