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Castledawson GAC

Derry-based Gaelic games club

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Saint Malachy's GAC Castledawson is a Gaelic Athletic Club from Castledawson, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of Derry GAA and currently compete in gaelic football, hurling and camogie.

History

St Malachy's GAC was set up largely thanks to Paddy Graham from the townland of Tamnadace outside the village. The Graham Cup, a reserve competition for South Derry clubs, is named in his honour.^[1] Although a relatively small club, they competed for several years in the Derry senior league.

Camogie

Castledawson fields camogie teams at U10, U12, U14, U16, Minor, and Senior levels.

Football titles

Senior

Derry Junior Football Championship: 1
- 1958
Larkin Cup: 1
- 1997
McGlinchey Cup: 3
- 2007, 2010, 2013
Derry Intermediate Football Championship: 3
- 2010, 2014, 2016
Graham Cup: 2
- 2002, 2017

Minor

Tommy O'Neill Cup: 1
- 2006 (shared with Foreglen)
Minor 'B' Football Championship: 1
- 2015
Minor 'B' Football League: 1
- 2015
South Derry Minor 'B' Football Championship: 1
- 2006

Camogie titles

Derry Premier Camogie Championship: 1
- 2007

Notable players

Matt Sonny McCann - Former Derry and Ulster footballer.^{[citation needed]}
Dermot Heaney - 1993 All-Ireland Championship winning Derry footballer.^{[citation needed]}
Adrian Heaney - Former Derry Minor, Under 21 and Senior Player who was the Senior team captain^{[citation needed]}
Seamus Heaney, the 1995 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature played as a boy for Castledawson, the club in the area of his birth.^[2]

External links

St Malachy's GAC website

References

^ "History: Club founder". Retrieved 6 September 2007. ^{[dead link]}
^ Carney, Jim (5 April 2020). "Why have football and hurling remained a cultural wasteland for our writers and artists?". Sunday Independent.