Armagh GAA

Irish:

Ard Mhacha

Province:

Ulster

Nickname(s):

The Orchard County

County colours:

Tangerine, White

Ground(s):

Athletic Grounds, Armagh

Dominant sport:

Dual County

Competitions

NFL:

Division 3

NHL:

Division 2B

Football Championship:

Sam Maguire Cup

Hurling Championship:

Christy Ring Cup

Ladies' Gaelic football:

Brendan Martin Cup

Camogie:

Nancy Murray Cup

Standard kit

Regular kit

Change kit

Tangerine, White

The Armagh County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Coiste Chontae Ard Mhacha) or Armagh GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Armagh. The county board is also responsible for the Armagh inter-county teams.

Armagh's county colours are Orange and White. Originally they wore black and amber striped shirts until 1926 when Dominican nuns from Omeath, in County Louth knitted the team a pair of Orange and White kits ahead of an Junior clash with Dublin which they have kept since.

Armagh has a long tradition of football. Several clubs were already in existence before the formation of the County Board in 1889. Armagh became only the second team to win the Ulster Senior Football Championship in 1890. In the early years of the GAA, a club that won its county championship went on to represent the county and would also wear the county colours. Armagh Harps represented Armagh in the Ulster final, beating Tyrone (Cookstown's Owen Roes), but losing to All-Ireland Champions Cork (Midleton) in the All-Ireland Semi-Final.

Despite early success at provincial level, national success at junior and minor level and All-Ireland final appearances in 1953 and 1977, it took until 2002 for Armagh to win their first and only All-Ireland Senior Football Championship under manager Joe Kernan. The county won the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, in 1949 and again in 2009. It lost the 1957 All-Ireland Minor final to Meath.

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