Castletown Geoghegan Hurling Club is a

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club based in

Castletown Geoghegan Castletown Geoghegan () is a village in County Westmeath, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, and lies south west of Lough Ennell near the county town of Mullingar. It is around 13 km south-west of Mullingar and 19 km north of Tullamore. Ca ...

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. The club first fielded a championship team in 1920 and is exclusively concerned with the game of

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. In senior hurling, Castletown Geoghegan HC competes annually in the

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, which they have won fourteen times as of 2022. The club also fields adult teams at the intermediate and junior levels. They also field teams at all underage groups.

History

Beginnings

The first recorded hurling games in

dates back to 1911 when games were played in Loughlum. These were not on an organized basis, but soon after a Kilkenny man named Mick Byrne who worked with

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at Castletown Station brought his skill and knowledge of hurling to the area. In 1920 the first team entered the junior championship. Since Byrne was a Kilkenny man, the chosen team colours were black and amber. At this stage hurling had moved nearer to Castletown and the game was played in a field called the Planting. Emigration was rife in the 1920s and as a result at the annual; general meeting of 1924 it was decided to disband the club. Joe Clarke, Pat Corcoran and Dan Leavy re-organized the club in 1930 and from that day to this the club has had unbroken service in the county championships. As of 2022, Alan Mangan was managing the club's senior hurlers.

Hurling Titles

(15): 1923, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1964, 1979, 1982, 1986, 1990, 2004, 2013, 2017, 2022, 2024 *

Westmeath Intermediate Hurling Championship The Westmeath Intermediate Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Slevin's Coaches Westmeath Intermediate Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Westmeath IHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Westmeath ...

(1): 2023 * Westmeath Junior A Hurling Championship (8): 1921, 1933, 1940, 1944, 1952, 1953, 1969, 2022 * Westmeath Junior B Hurling Championship (2): 1996, 2021 * Westmeath Under-21 Hurling Championship (13): 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1991, 1996, 2005, 2006, 2013, 2014, 2015 * Westmeath Minor Hurling Championship (14): 1968, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2021, 2022 All Ireland u14 féile nGael (3): 2007, 2010, 2018

References

External links

Castletown Geoghegan GAA site
{{Westmeath GAA clubs Gaelic games clubs in County Westmeath Hurling clubs in County Westmeath