Shinrone 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 located in the Southern Offaly village of
Shinrone
Shinrone () is a village in County Offaly, Ireland. It is in the southernmost part of the county, situated very close to the border with County Tipperary. It lies at the junction of the R491 regional road between Nenagh and Roscrea with the R4 ...
County Offaly
County Offaly (; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster. It is named after the Ancient Ireland, ancient Kingdom of Uí ...
. The club compete in competitions from u6 to senior run by the
Offaly GAA
The Offaly County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) () or Offaly 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 Offaly. Separate county boards are ...
county board. Shinrone are almost exclusively concerned with the game of Hurling.
Achievements
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Offaly Senior Hurling Championship 2022
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Offaly Intermediate Hurling Championship Winners 1932, 1957, 1991, 2020
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Offaly Junior A Hurling Championship Winners 1919, 1924, 1951, 1968, 1976, 2003, 2009, 2012, 2018,
* Offaly Minor A Hurling Championship (4) 1951, 1959, 2013, 2023(Shinrone/BK)
* Offaly Under-21 A Hurling Championship 1960-61, 1977 (St Mary’s) 1978, 2013, 2014, 2016
* Offaly Under-16 A Hurling Championship (4) 1936, 1954, 2008, 2017
* Community Games All Ireland Gold 2012
* Offaly Under-14 A Hurling Championship 1993, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2015
* Offaly Under-12 A Championship 2019
* Offaly Under-13 A Hurling Championship 2019 (St Mary’s)
Inter County Medalists
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Brendan Keeshan- 1981, 1985
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Seán O'Meara
History
Hurling
Gaelic games clubs in County Offaly
Hurling clubs in County Offaly
and Football were certainly played in Shinrone Parish long before the G.A.A. was founded in 1884. It was only natural that after the founding of the Association was formed Shinrone was one of the first seventy clubs affiliated to Central Council. Shinrone was represented at the first meeting of Offaly County Board by Jack Minchin and Martin Fennell.
The parish straddles two counties, Offaly and Tipperary and two provinces. In the early days the parish was represented by a single club, but in the 1930’s the Knockshegowna club was founded and this club caters for players from the Tipperary side of the parish to the present day. For a time two other clubs, Brosna and Corolanty flourished in the parish. Indeed the Brosna Club won the Offaly Junior Championship in 1945. Shinrone also played in the Offaly championship of 1889 so the club was there from the very beginning.
Seamus O Riain, former president of the G.A.A. in his book tells of a game between “The Honeymounts” a famous team from Dunkerrin Parish and a combined team from Shinrone and Ballingarry in 1889. The venue was the big park in Cooreclevin, Barna and a large crowd turned out because it was the talk of the countryside around for weeks beforehand. By all accounts the game was tough and fierce, but at the call of time, the Honeymounts were victorious by a single point
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