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


Location

The club is situated in the parish of Croom in central County Limerick in the south division on the banks of the Maigue. Bordering clubs include Granagh/Ballingarry, Croagh/Kilfinny, Adare, Patrickswell, Crecora/Manister and Banogue. The club is roughly 20 km south of
Limerick City Limerick ( ; ) is a city in western Ireland, in County Limerick. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and is in the Mid-West Region, Ireland, Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. W ...
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History

The club was founded in 1884 as Croom Abú's and is one of the oldest clubs in the county. Croom became a force in hurling within the county, winning twenty-three West Senior Hurling titles from 1907 to 1943. During that period, they also won County Senior Hurling Championships in 1908, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1940 and 1941 along with a Junior Hurling title in 1922 and a minor in 1936. At this time they built up a rivalry with Ahane with whom they contested a number of county finals. Croom had a number of All-Ireland winners with Limerick in the early part of the 20th century, including Paddy Buskin in 1897, Mick Feely, Jack O'Shea and Ter Mangan in 1913, Garrett Howard, Mick Mullane and Tom Mangan, Howard, Jim Roche and Jack O'Connell in 1934, Howard and Roche in 1936 and Peter Cregan and Roche in 1940. In 1950, the club could only field a junior hurling team and they were moved to the south division in 1956. They then won the County Junior Hurling Championship in 1965. Croom first fielded a junior football team in 1954 winning the County Championship in 1967. At this stage, football was becoming the dominant sport in the club. They went on to win seven South Senior Football titles winning County titles in 1976 and 1983 beating Oola and St. Kieran's along with several underage titles. Donal Murray was a member of the Limerick Senior Hurling team that lost the All-Ireland final to Galway in 1980. A South Senior Hurling Crown was won in 1982 but this marked the start of a barren period for the club. By the mid-1990s there had been a revival in both codes at underage level. The now junior hurlers won the County title in 1996 and won the Intermediate title two years later. Croom won back-to-back Minor County titles in 1996/97 and won a County Under-21 title in 2001 and had several players on the All-Ireland Under-21 winning teams of 2000-02. The footballers won a County Minor title in 1998 and followed it up by winning the County Under-21 titles in 1999 and 2000, along with a County junior championship in 1999. There was also three Croom footballers on the Limerick team that won their first ever Munster Under-21 Football Championship in 2000. In this period, however, Croom did not win intermediate football or senior hurling titles, losing an Intermediate Championship final in 2000 to Gerald Griffin's and a County Senior Hurling final in 2007 when they were beaten by Adare. Four Croom players, Stephen Lucey, Peter Lawlor, Mark O'Riordan and Hugh Flavin, were part of the Limerick Senior Hurling team that lost the 2007 All-Ireland final. In the late 2000s-early 2010s, the club's underage teams mainly fielded 13-a-side and 11 a-side teams, often amalgamating with neighbouring parishes to field a 15-a-side team. The hurlers lost their senior status in 2013, losing a relegation play-off to rivals Patrickswell and were regraded to play at premier intermediate level for 2014. The footballers were also relegated in 2013, after being beaten by old rivals Gerald Griffin's in the relegation playoff.


Honours

*
Limerick Senior Football Championship The Limerick Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by the top Limerick GAA clubs. The champions qualify to represent Limerick in the Munster Senior Club Football Championship, the winners of which progre ...
(2): 1976, 1983 *
Limerick Senior Hurling Championship The Limerick Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Bon Secours Hospital County Senior Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Limerick SHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Limerick County Board ...
(6): 1908, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1940, 1941 * Limerick Intermediate Hurling Championship (1): 1998 *
Limerick Junior Hurling Championship The Limerick Junior A Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Woodlands House Hotel County Junior A Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Limerick JAHC) is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association competition organised by ...
(3): 1922, 1965, 1996 * Limerick Junior Football Football Championship (2): 1967, 1999 * Limerick Under-21 Hurling Championship (1): 2001 * Limerick Under-21 Football Championship (2): 1999, 2000 * Limerick Minor Hurling Championship (3): 1936, 1996, 1997 * Limerick Minor Football Championship (1): 1998


Notable players

* Conor Allis * Peter Cregan * Hugh Flavin * John Galvin * Garrett Howard * Peter Lawlor * Stephen Lucey * Donal Murray * Mark O'Riordan * Jim Roche


References

* "One Hundred Years of Glory: A History of Limerick GAA", Ó Ceallaigh, Séamus & Murphy, Seán, 1984. * "Cromadh Abú", Croom GAA and Development Association publication, 2011.


External links


Croom GAA site

Limerick GAA site
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