Éire Óg GAA (Cork)
| Founded: | 1928 | ||||||||
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| County: | Cork | ||||||||
| Colours: | Red and Yellow | ||||||||
| Grounds: | Knockanemore | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 51°52′31.66″N 8°40′06.89″W / 51.8754611°N 8.6685806°WCoordinates: 51°52′31.66″N 8°40′06.89″W / 51.8754611°N 8.6685806°W | ||||||||
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Éire Óg is a Gaelic football and hurling club based in Ovens, County Cork, Ireland. The club is affiliated with Cork GAA county board and the Muskerry divisional board.
Cumann Iománaíochta agus Peile Éire Óg
Éire Óg – Club History
Éire Óg Hurling and Football club is located in the parish of Ovens/Farran approximately 10 miles west of Cork city, just off the main Cork-Killarney road.
Gaelic Games were played in the parish of Ovens and Farran dating back to the period immediately after the foundation of the G.A.A. in 1884. Éire Óg’s predecessor, Bride Valley, named after the River Bride which flows through the parish, affiliated in 1890, fielding teams in both hurling and football.
Following the establishment of the Divisional Boards in the mid-1920s, Bride Valley won the first two Muskerry Junior Hurling Championship in 1925 & 1926 before the Éire Óg club was formed, with players from Cloughduv and two from Knockavilla joining forces with the Ovens and Farran based contingent in 1928.
The newly formed Éire Óg team entered the senior ranks in their inaugural campaign, winning the 1928 Senior Hurling Championship defeating Mallow in the final on a scoreline of 5-2 to 3-2.
Early successes in hurling were followed by a fallow period during the late 1930s and 1940s, when the club went into decline. Thanks to the efforts of men such as the late John Lyons, John Crean, Tom Murphy, Tim Lane, Jimmy O’Brien, Nicholas Irwin, Teddy O’Leary, Denny O’Sullivan and the Rev. Fr. Seán Murphy, Éire Óg survived the barren spell and began the journey to regain its former glories.
Underage success in 1953 sparked a revival of fortunes with a nucleus of players going on to win three divisional junior hurling titles in a row from 1960 to 1962, eventually winning the county outright in the latter year. Éire Óg won the Liam Breathnach Cup in 1964 before being re-graded to the junior ranks in 1969 where they won the Muskerry Junior Hurling title in 1971 and 1972.
Hurling dominated the landscape but Éire Óg did manage to chalk-up their first Muskerry Junior Football Championship in 1976.
In 1977, Éire Óg won the Junior Hurling County Championship and returned to the Intermediate grade and it didn’t take long for them to make an impression, winning the County Championship within two seasons in 1979 before going on to compete at senior level for the following three years.
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