Greenlough GAC
| CLG Naomh Oilibheir Pluinceid Grian Locha | ||
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| Founded: | 1939 | |
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| County: | Derry | |
| Nickname: | The Lough | |
| Colours: | Red, White and Black | |
| Grounds: | Saint Oliver Plunkett Park | |
| Coordinates: | 54°52′03.23″N 6°30′46.97″W / 54.8675639°N 6.5130472°WCoordinates: 54°52′03.23″N 6°30′46.97″W / 54.8675639°N 6.5130472°W | |
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Saint Oliver Plunkett's GAC Greenlough (Irish: CLG Naomh Oilibheir Pluinceid Grainlocha) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Clady/Greenlough, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of Derry GAA and currently caters for Gaelic football and camogie, and also competes in Scór. The club is named after Irish martyr Saint Oliver Plunkett.
Underage teams play in the South Derry league and championships. Greenlough has won the Derry Intermediate Football Championship three times and the Derry Junior Football Championship three times.
Greenlough fields Gaelic football teams at U8, U10, U12, U14, U16, Minor, Reserve and Senior levels. They currently compete in the Derry Senior Championship and Division 1 of the Derry ACFL.
Oliver Plunkett's also fields camogie teams at various age-groups. The camogie teams compete as St Columba's Camogie Club, although they use St Oliver Plunkett's ground.
St Oliver Plunkett's GAC Greenlough was founded in 1939 by Michael Henry, Patrick Rankin and Louis Madden.[1] Despite a lack of silverware during the period, the 1940s saw arguably the greatest ever Greenlough team. Players such as Thomas Edward McCloskey, Jimmy Cassidy and the McErlean brothers (Eoin and Henry) played on the Derry Senior side of the time. Jimmy Cassidy in November 2007 was voted as the Right-Corner Forward for the All Time Star Derry team.[2] The club first major success at Senior level came in 1953 when they won the Derry Junior Football Championship and added a second Junior Championship in 1965. In Scór Greenlough has won two All Ireland titles; in Senior Céilí dancing and in Junior Ballad groups.
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