Cappawhite GAA 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 is located in the village of Cappawhite,

County Tipperary County Tipperary () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary (tow ...

, bordering on

County Limerick County Limerick () is a western Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West Region, Ireland, Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Reg ...

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. It competes in the West Division

Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

and

hurling Hurling (, ') is an outdoor Team sport, team game of ancient Gaelic culture, Gaelic Irish origin, played by men and women. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goa ...

competitions of

Tipperary GAA The Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) () or Tipperary GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Tipperary and the Tipperary county teams. County Tippe ...

. The club's tradition is in hurling, having won major honours through the decades. However, the club achieved major football success in the 1970s when the West Division Senior Football championship was also won. Cappawhite full-back John Kelly was Tipperary's no.3 when they won the All-Ireland championship in 1971.

Hurling

Honours

Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship The Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the FBD Insurance Tipperary County Senior Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Tipperary GAA, Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Ath ...

(1) ** 1987 *Tipperary U-21 'A' Hurling Championship (1) ** 1977 (with Éire Óg), 1999 *

West Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship The West Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Tipperary Co-Op West Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the West Tipperary Board of the Gaelic Athletic Assoc ...

(8) ** 1962, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 2000, 2001, 2005 *

Tipperary Junior A Hurling Championship The Tipperary Junior A Hurling Championship is an annual championship of hurling for male players in the junior grade and is organised by the Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). The championship has been awarded alm ...

(2) ** 1942, 1948 * West Tipperary Junior A Hurling Championship (8) ** 1942, 1948, 1957, 1961, 1982, 1985, 1988, 2006 * South Tipperary Junior A Hurling Championship (1) ** 1913 * West Tipperary Junior B Hurling Championship (3) ** 1997, 1998, 1999 *West Tipperary U-21 'A' Hurling Championship (12) ** 1962 (with Éire Óg), 1965, 1968, 1974 (with Solohead), 1975 (with Solohead), 1977 (with Éire Óg), 1978 (with Éire Óg), 1980 (with Éire Óg), 1997, 1999, 2015 (with Sean Treacy's), 2016 (with Sean Treacy's) *West Tipperary U-21 'B' Hurling Championship (4) ** 1995, 2005, 2008, 2014 (with Sean Treacy's) * West Tipperary Minor A Hurling Championship (10) ** 1934, 1935, 1957 (with Éire Óg), 1962 (with Éire Óg), 1965, 1966, 1971, 1977 (with Éire Óg), 1978 (with Éire Óg), 1995 * West Tipperary Minor B Hurling Championship (2) ** 2007, 2008

Gaelic football

Honours

Tipperary Intermediate Football Championship The Tipperary Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition organised since 1974 by the Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association for the second-tier Gaelic football clubs in County Tipperary in I ...

(1) ** 1990 *Tipperary Junior Football Championship (2) ** 1978, 2008 *West Tipperary Intermediate Football Championship (1) ** 1990 *West Tipperary Junior Football Championship (5) ** 1973, 1977, 2006, 2007, 2008 *West Tipperary Junior B Football Championship (1) ** 2022 * West Tipperary Under-21 A Football Championship (1) ** 1981 (with Éire Óg) * West Tipperary Under-21 B Football Championship (1) ** 1996 * West Tipperary Minor B Football Championship (4) ** 1985, 1994, 1997, 2003

Notable players

* John Kelly * Ger O'Neill * Eugene O'Neill (hurler) * Thomas Costello (hurler)

References

External links

Tipperary GAA site
Gaelic games clubs in County Tipperary Hurling clubs in County Tipperary Gaelic football clubs in County Tipperary {{Tipperary-GAA-club-stub