St Colum's 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 ...

junior A club 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

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

in the Carbery division, located in Treanamadaree,

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History

The club was formed in 1970 to facilitate

for people living in the

Kealkill Kealkill () is a small village in County Cork, Ireland, located 10.3 kilometres from Bantry and 75.8 kilometres from Cork City. Its amenities include a church, a shop, a school, a community playgroup, two public houses and a GAA club ( St Colum ...

area (e.g. Cappabue, Carriganass, Borlin, Ardnagashel, Coomhola etc.) instead of travelling to clubs further away like

Bantry Blues Bantry Blues is a Gaelic football club based in Bantry, County Cork, Ireland. The club is affiliated with Cork GAA and to the Carbery division. The club has always been primarily a Gaelic football club, but has fielded hurling teams also. In ...

, Glengariff,

Dohenys Dohenys is a Gaelic Athletic Association club, fielding Gaelic football and hurling teams in the town of Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland. It won its only Cork Senior Club Football Championship in 1897. Other titles won include 2 Cork Intermedi ...

Ballingeary Ballingeary (, ) is a village in the Shehy Mountains in County Cork, Ireland. The village is located within the Muskerry ''Gaeltacht'' (Irish-speaking area). According to the 2016 census, over 42% of the population speak Irish on a daily basi ...

etc. The club was founded by Fr John McCarthy (a native of Newcestown) who was appointed curate to Kealkil in 1970. The first meeting of the club was held in Coomhola National School on 8 December 1970. In 1971, the club entered teams in all grades open to it, and in the very first year reached the final of the West Cork Junior B Hurling Championship, only to be beaten after a replay by Bandon on the first Sunday in January 1972. St Colum's Camogie Club was formed on 27 April 2009.

Roll of honour

In 1997, St Colum's defeated Glengariff in Bantry to win the Junior B county title and move into Junior A. In 2003, St Colum's defeated

Lisgoold Lisgoold () is a village and civil parish in County Cork, Ireland. Lisgoold is in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, and is served by St John the Baptist Catholic church. Lisgoold is part of the Cork East Dáil constituency. Sport The lo ...

to win the

Cork Junior Hurling Championship The Cork Junior A Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Junior A Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork JAHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Cork GAA, Cork County Board of ...

. In 2013, the club's junior footballers defeated Caheragh to win the West Cork Final for the first time. They subsequently reached the county final but were narrowly defeated by Mitchelstown. 2013 also saw the hurlers reaching the hurling decider in Carbery losing to Dohenys. *

Cork Junior Football Championship The Cork Junior A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Bon Secours Cork Junior A Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork JAFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Cork GAA, Cork County Board ...

(0): runner-up 2013 *

Cork Junior B Hurling Championship The Cork Junior B Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Junior B Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork JBHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Cork County Board of the Gaeli ...

(1): 2003 * Cork Junior B Football Championship (1): 1997 * Cork Minor C Football Championship (2): 2018,2019 *

South West Junior A Football Championship The Carbery Junior A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Bandon Co-op Carbery Junior A Football Championship and abbreviated to the Carbery JAFC) is an annual club Gaelic football competition organised by the West Cork B ...

(1): 2013 * South West Junior A Hurling Championship (0): Runner-Up 1986, 2013, 2016 * West Cork Junior B Hurling Championship (3): 1982, 1994, 2003 * West Cork Junior B Football Championship (3): 1985, 1996, 1997 * West Cork Junior C Football Championship (4): 2006, 2007, 2016, 2017 * West Cork Junior D Football Championship (1): 2001 * West Cork Minor A Hurling Championship (1): 1980 * West Cork Minor B Hurling Championship (5): 1973, 1974, 1975, 2000, 2001 * West Cork Minor C Football Championship (1): 2018 * West Cork Minor C Hurling Championship (3): 2007, 2009, 2010 * West Cork Under-21 B Hurling Championship (6): 1974, 1975, 1979, 1994, 1996, 2001 * West Cork Under-21 B Football Championship (4): 1972, 1974, 1975, 1995 * West Cork Under-21 C Football Championship (3): 2007, 2013, 2023

Notable players

* Alan O'Connor

References

External links

Official St Colum's Club website
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