Lees Football Club is a defunct
Cork-based
Gaelic Athletic Association
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club on the southside of Cork city,
Ireland
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. The club was founded in 1886 and was primarily concerned with the game of
Gaelic football
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. The club had a strong association with the Lee Rowing Club and the teams were largely made up of
West Cork
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men working in the city.
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# By the late 1920s the club was almost defunct and at the 1929 AGM of a rival club,
Nils, the chairman "stressed the fact that Gaelic Football was in a deplorable state in the city at the present time, and teams of long connection with the GAA like Nils and Lees, found it almost impossible to put a single senior team on the field when a couple of years back they could put senior, intermediate and junior teams. There was certainly work for an organiser here to organise Gaelic football in Cork City and help to bring it back to the high position in the GAA which it held some years back."
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# Lees spent 111 years on top of the Cork SFC Roll of Honour
—including 98 consecutive years—and were only passed by Nemo Rangers in 2002. Their total of 111 years is the fourth best in SFC history behind Commercials Limerick (122 years), Tullamore GAA (115 years) and Ballina Stephenites (115 years).
History
Honours
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All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC) () is the premier inter-county competition in Gaelic football. County (Gaelic games), County teams compete against each other and the winner is declared All-Ireland Champions.
Organised by the ...
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1911
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* January 3
** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 m ...
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Cork Senior Football Championships: 12
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1887
Events January
* January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher.
* January 20
** The United States Senate allows the United States Navy to lease Pearl Har ...
, 1888, 1896, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1907, 1908, 1911, 1914, 1923, 1955
Famous players
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Nealie Duggan
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Donal Hurley
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Mick Mehigan
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P. A. Murphy
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Mort O'Shea
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Donal O'Sullivan
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Pádraig Tyers
References
Gaelic games clubs in County Cork
Gaelic football clubs in County Cork
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