Monasterevan G.F.C. is a

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 ...

club based in

Monasterevin Monasterevin (), sometimes Monasterevan, is a town in County Kildare, Ireland. It lies on the River Barrow and the Barrowline, a canal branch of the Grand Canal. In the 20 years between the 2002 and 2022 censuses, the population more than dou ...

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. The club competes in the County Kildare GAA board league and cup system. They were Kildare "club of the year" in 1977. In 2012, Monasterevan G.F.C. won their first

Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship The Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football tournament played between the Intermediate football champions of the 12 counties of Leinster. The winners will represent the province in the semi-final of the All- ...

, beating Raheens in the county final on a scoreline of 1-10 to 0-07 and O’Connells of Louth 0-04 to 0-03 in the Leinster. Monasterevan were the first club in Ireland to win a football and hurling double, defeating Clane by 1-3 to 1-2, in the 1890 Kildare football final, and defeating Moorefield in the Kildare hurling final the same year.

Rosglas

Rosglas ( Irish for Rosegreen, sometimes written as "Ros Glas") GAA club was founded in 1974 as a juvenile club. It currently serves as a hurling club. It has won five minor championship and league titles and won county championships at under-12, under-14 and under-16 level.

Honours

Kildare Senior Football Championship The Kildare Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by Kildare GAA between the top clubs in County Kildare, Ireland. The winners of the Championship qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Senior ...

: (3) 1890, 1911, 1977 Runners-up: 1907, 1910, 1912, 1973, 1976 *

: 2012 *

Kildare Intermediate Football Championship The Kildare Intermediate Football Championship, or Kildare I.F.C., is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by mid-tier Kildare GAA clubs since 1928. The winners currently receive the Hugh Campion Cup in honour of the Suncroft GFC, Suncr ...

: (4) 1959, 1971, 2012, 2019 *

Kildare Junior Football Championship The Kildare Junior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by lower-tier Kildare GAA clubs. The winning club plays in the Kildare Intermediate Football Championship in the following year. As of the 2022 season the ...

: (4) 1906, 1910, 1935, 1954 Runners-up: 1930, 1945 * Kildare Senior B Football Championship: Runners-up: 1992 * Kildare Reserve "B" Football Championship: (1) 2013 * Kildare Junior C Football Championship: (1) 1998 * Kildare Under-21 B Football Shield Winners (2) 2011, 2013 * Kildare Minor Football Championship: (1) 1928 Runners-up: 1992 * Leinster Leader Cup: (2) 1973, 1974 Runners-up: 1975 * Kildare Junior Football League: (2) 1945, 1954 Runners-up: 1933, 1948; * Kildare Junior Football League (Div 2): (2) 1993, 1995 Runners-up: 1973, 1996 * Kildare Junior Football League (Div 3B): (1) 1998 * Kildare Junior Football League (Div 4 South): (1) 2013 * Kildare Minor Football League (Div l): Runners-up: 1993 * Kildare Minor Football League (Div 2): (1) 1992 * Kildare Minor Football League (Div 3): (3) 1990, 2011, 2013 Runners-up: 2010 * Kildare Minor Football League (Div 4): (1) 2008 * Keogh Cup: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2023 * Kildare Under 21 Champions: 2016

Notable players

* Hugh Hyland

Bibliography

* * * * ''Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000'' (in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000) *

References

External links

Official Monasterevan GFC site
{{Kildare GAA clubs Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare