Cahal Carvill (born 22 April 1987) is a hurler who plays as a centre-forward at senior level for the Armagh county team. Carvill made his debut on the inter-county scene as a

dual player Dual player or dual star is a term used in Hiberno-English to describe someone who competes in multiple sports — for example, in Victorian Ireland, cricket and hurling. The term today in Gaelic games typically describes a male player who plays ...

for the Armagh minor teams. He played for several seasons in this grade, and won an

Ulster Minor Football Championship The Ulster Minor Football Championship is the Minor "knockout" competition in the game of Gaelic football played in the province of Ulster in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Ulster Council. The trophy for the winning side is T ...

medal as a

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er, coming on as a late substitute in both the semi-final and final, and an All-Ireland medal as a hurler in the C competition. Carvill subsequently joined the Armagh under-21 hurling and football teams, winning an All-Ireland hurling medal at C level. By that stage he had also joined the Armagh senior hurling team, making his debut in 2006, and going on to win two

Nicky Rackard Cup The Nicky Rackard Cup (; often referred to as the Rackard Cup) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association. The cup forms the fourth-tier of Hurling for senior county teams (the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champi ...

medals (the fourth-highest senior inter-county championship overall in hurling) and two lower

National Hurling League The National Hurling League is an annual Inter county, inter-county hurling competition featuring teams from Ireland and England. Founded in 1925 by the Gaelic Athletic Association, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation within the l ...

medals.

Honours

;Queen's University Belfast *

Sigerson Cup The Sigerson Cup is the trophy for the premier Gaelic football championship among Higher Education institutions (Universities, Colleges and Institutes of Technology) in Ireland. It traditionally begins in mid January and ends in late February. T ...

(1): 2007 ;Middleton Na Fianna *

Ulster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship The Ulster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the AIB Ulster GAA Hurling Intermediate Club Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Ulster GAA, Ulster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Asso ...

(2): 2011, 2017 *

Armagh Senior Hurling Championship The Armagh Senior Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition contested by top-tier Armagh GAA clubs. Hurling has always been more popular in the north and west of the county. Camlough and Bessbrook are the only south Armagh clubs to h ...

(10): 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 ;Armagh *

(2):

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

* National Hurling League Division 2B (1):

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

(1):

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

;Awards * Christy Ring Cup Champion 15 (1): 2011

References

1987 births Living people Armagh inter-county hurlers Champion 15 Awards winners Dual players Gaelic games players from County Armagh Middletown Na Fianna hurlers Ulster inter-provincial hurlers 21st-century Irish sportsmen {{Armagh-Gaelic-football-bio-stub