Mullagh GAA 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 based in the parish of Mullagh,

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. The club is primarily concerned with the game of

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 ...

History

Gaelic games Gaelic games () are a set of sports played worldwide, though they are particularly popular in Ireland, where they originated. They include Gaelic football, hurling, Gaelic handball and rounders. Football and hurling, the most popular of the s ...

had been played in the Mullagh area for more than 100 years before the foundation of the

. A game called "hurling over the ditch" was said to have been played and is part of the old folklore of the area. A history of 'The GAA in Mullagh' was published in 1987 by historian Paul O'Donnell.

Honours

Galway Senior Club Hurling Championship The Galway Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Brooks Galway Senior Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Galway GAA, Galway County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1 ...

s (3): 1906, 1929, 1932 * Galway Senior B Hurling Championship (1): 2023 *

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship The All-Ireland Club Camogie Championship is a competition for club teams in the Irish women’s field sport of camogie. It is contested by the senior club champions of the leading counties and organised by An Cumann Camógaíochta. Trophy The t ...

s (1):

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

* Galway Senior Camogie Championships (5): 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 2014

Notable players

* Iggy Clarke * Joe Clarke * Séamus Coen * Gerry Coone * Pete Finnerty * Davey Glennon * Derek Hardiman * Tony Reddin

External links

Mullagh GAA Club
{{Galway clubs Gaelic games clubs in County Galway Hurling clubs in County Galway