Cloughduv GAA is a

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based in the village of

Cloughduv Cloghduv or Cloghduff ( ; ) is a village in County Cork, Ireland. As of the 2022 census, it had a population of 440 people. The main industry is agriculture, although it is also a commuter village for Cork City. Cloughduv is part of the Dáil ...

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. The club is a member of the

Muskerry Muskerry () is a central region of County Cork, Ireland which incorporates the baronies of Muskerry West Cork GAA The Cork County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) () or Cork GAA is one of the 32 County board (Gaelic games), county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Cork and the Cork county teams. It ...

. The club fields

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team only. There are two

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clubs in the parish (Kilmurry parish) -

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and Kilmurry - and there is often an overlap of players between the different clubs.

History

Hurling in the area pre-dates the founding of the

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in 1884; when the Cork County Board was inaugurated in 1886, 21 clubs attended including Ryecourt GAA. Shortly thereafter the name was changed to Cloch Dubh. Success was not long in arriving, culminating in 1912 in a victory in the County Senior Beamish Shield. In the late 1920s, Cloughduv joined up with BrideValley to form Éire Óg and this led to victory in the

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final of 1928. The Éire Óg combination had a short shelflife and Cloughduv reverted to their solo career. In 1940, Cloughduv won a County Junior Hurling title and the following year won the County Intermediate title. The 1950s saw an unprecedented three School Shield Counties won by Cloughduv. Three Mid Cork Minor titles followed in the 1960s. In 1970, the club won the

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title, beating Courcey Rovers in the Final. In 1973, the

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title was Cloughduvs when they had victory over

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in the final. The next big success came in 1983 with another Intermediate County. Here

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were the vanquished team. Another Intermediate County followed in 1986 with victory over Erins Own. The club regraded to Junior status at the end of 2001 and won Junior Mid Cork titles in 2002, 2005 and 2009. Having originally started out in Ryecourt, the club in 1967 opened a new playing field to the Western side of the village, Fr O’Driscoll Park. This was home to the club until 2006, when Cloughduv returned to Ryecourt to a development which has three full size playing pitches (2 with floodlight). Cloughduv Camogie was founded in 1981 and they play in the senior grade in Cork and have won the Senior County Championship 3 times in 2001, 2002 and 2005.

Achievements

Winners (1) 1928 Runners-Up 1931 (both with Bride Valley) *

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Winners (1) 2018 *

Winners (5) 1911, 1941, 1973, 1983, 1986 , Runners-Up 1946, 1981, 1984, 1994 *

Winners (3) 1940, 1970, 2018 , Runners-Up 1910, 1922, 1938, 1948, 1951, 1953, 1956, 1964, 1967, 2009, 2010, 2015 * Cork Minor Hurling Championship Runner-Up 1939, 1941, 1967 * Cork Minor A Hurling Championship Winner (1) 2009 Runner-Up 2006 *

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Runners-Up 1983, 1989 * Cork Under-21 A Hurling Championship Runner-Up 2018 *

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Winner (25 titles) 1933, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1967, 1970, 1994, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 , Runners-Up 1929, 1944, 1949, 1961, 1963, 1965, 2004, 2012, 2016 *Mid Cork U21 A Hurling Champions 2018 *

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Winner (3) 2001, 2002, 2005

Notable players

(Hurlers/Footballers) *

Dinny Barry-Murphy Dinny Barry-Murphy (17 July 1903 – 21 August 1973) was an Irish hurler who played as a centre-back for the Cork senior team. Born in Cloughduv, County Cork, Barry-Murphy first played competitive hurling during his schooling at St Finbarr' ...

John Barry-Murphy John Barry-Murphy (7 January 1892 – 6 January 1975) was an Irish sportsperson. He played hurling at various times with his local clubs Cloughduv and Éire Óg and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team in the 1910s and 1920s. Pl ...

* Kevin Murray *

Noel Dunne Noel Dunne (born 1948) is an Irish former hurler and Gaelic footballer. He played with club sides Cloughduv and Canovee, divisional side Muskerry and at inter-county level with Cork. Career Dunne first played hurling with the Cloughduv minor ...

Ted O'Mahony Ted O'Mahony (born 1940) is an Irish retired hurler. He played hurling at club level with Cloughduv and at inter-county level as a member of the Cork senior hurling team. Honours ;Cork *All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1966 *Muns ...

Connie Kelly Cornelius Kelly (1949 – 5 April 1985) was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer. He played with club sides Cloughduv and Canovee, divisional side Muskerry and at inter-county level with the Cork senior teams. Career Kelly first played hur ...

* Barry Murphy Camogie: * Una O'Donoghue * Briege Corkery * Joanne O'Callaghan *

Aoife Murray Aoife Murray (born 1984 in Dunmanway) is a Camogie player whose brother Kevin Murray, the former Cork Senior hurler, won All - Ireland medal in 1999: Quantity surveyor (QS) based in Cork. Performance in the 2009 All Ireland final won the "pla ...

References

External sources

Club website

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