Glenealy Hurling Club
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| Founded: | 1885 | ||||||||||||
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| County: | Wicklow | ||||||||||||
| Nickname: | The Glen | ||||||||||||
| Colours: | Red and White | ||||||||||||
| Grounds: | The Park, Glenealy | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 52°58′08″N 6°08′38″W / 52.96877°N 6.143965°WCoordinates: 52°58′08″N 6°08′38″W / 52.96877°N 6.143965°W | ||||||||||||
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Glenealy (Irish: Gleann Fhaídhle Cumman Iománaíochta) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the parish of Glenealy and Ashford in County Wicklow, Ireland. The club was founded in 1885 as a football club but switched codes to the game of hurling in the early 1920s.
In senior hurling Glenealy compete annually in the Wicklow Senior Club Hurling Championship, which they have won fourteen times as of 2013.
It was as a football team that Glenealy set out in Wicklow GAA. The first game they played was at Avondale on March 20, 1887, when they suffered defeat at the hands of Glendalough, 0-4 to nil. There was very little coverage for G.A.A. in those days, but they were noted in action again at Newrath on February 19, 1888, and this time they went down to Brittas 0-3 to 0-0. No names were mentioned in relation to either of those matches. Another mention was found of Glenealy footballers in 1907. On April 21, they beat Killiskey 2-11 to 0-1 in some kind of a tournament game. Byrne, Doyle, Hennessy, Murray, Ellis, Farrell, Newsome and Healy were mentioned as playing well in that game. A small entry was located about the fact that they reached the Wicklow Junior final in 1921. They were beaten in that final by two points to one, but only one name was mentioned and that was Chris Mernagh of Ballinacor. However, Tommy Glynn (club PRO) did manage to dig up the names of that Glenealy team — Tom Porter (goal), Jack Horgan, Jack Jordan, Gen Dunne, Mick Durneen, Jack Flynn, Mick Dunbar, Frank Newsome, Paddy Doyle, Jim Porter, Bill 'Budget' Glynn, Lar 'Cricket' Byrne, Jack 'Bough' Byrne, Jim 'Doctor' Byrne, Jack 'Cocker' Byrne. Subs: Hugh Cooney, Jim 'Can' Byrne and Paddy 'Tige' Byrne.
Glenealy turned to hurling in the 1920s.
They reached their first hurling final in 1932 only to be narrowly beaten by Carnew, 3-0 to 2-2. The match was played on December 4, 1932, and the Glenealy team was as follows: Tom, Ned and George Porter, Joe and W. Glynn, M. Timmins, M. Anderson, G. Kavanagh, E. McNabb, James Shannon, John Byrne, L. Byrne, John Flynn, Michael Doyle. They didn't have much success in the next decade.
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