Meelick-Eyrecourt
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| Founded: | 1884 | ||||||||
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| County: | Galway | ||||||||
| Colours: | Blue and White | ||||||||
| Grounds: | The sportsfield & Buddelagh Eyrecourt |
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| Coordinates: | 53°12′43.02″N 8°05′29.03″W / 53.2119500°N 8.0913972°WCoordinates: 53°12′43.02″N 8°05′29.03″W / 53.2119500°N 8.0913972°W | ||||||||
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Meelick-Eyrecourt is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in the east of County Galway, Ireland,
Meelick-Eyrecourt GAA club is a GAA club which has managed to produce some of Ireland's best known hurlers. It borders with Killimor , Portumna and Kiltormer GAA clubs in Galway and St. Rynaghs in Banagher Co. Offaly.
A club founded in Meelick in the 1880s contested the first all-Ireland hurling final in 1887.
The present club has players from the largely rural areas of Clonfert and Meelick, and the small village of Eyrecourt. These three areas make up the local Roman Catholic parish of Eyrecourt, Clonfert and Meelick, which is a small parish located on the south corner of the Diocese of Clonfert.
Meelick and Clonfert originally formed separate hurling teams. The Meelick club was founded in 1884. The existing club is sometimes cited as being one of the oldest GAA clubs in Ireland.
Meelick competed in the first All Ireland Hurling final of 1887 after defeating Kilbeacanty in the Galway County Cup. The club played opponents Thurles of Tipperary. Thurles defeated Meelick 1-1 0 0-0.
The club is primarily focussed on hurling while gaelic football has been regarded as the club's second sport.
However, during the 1960s gaelic football was very strong in Meelick-Eyrecourt GAA club and the club contested two Junior Football county finals in the 1960s at a time when Galway football was arguably at its height and at the same time the Galway senior football team won its famous three-in-a-row all-Ireland finals.
Despite having little success in terms of titles, this small club has always been recognised within Galway hurling circles as a producer of good hurling talent.
The club last contested a senior hurling county final in 1980, which it lost. The club has fluctuated between senior hurling and intermediate grades, which is similar to senior 'B' in other counties, since the late-1990s but has still continued to produce many inter-county Galway hurlers at all grades.
A number of players who originally played with the Meelick-Eyrecourt club went on to play hurling for other counties, particularly Dublin, due to emigration in the 1940s and 1950s.
The former Meelick-Eyrecourt hurler Joe Salmon was named on the 'Galway team of the Millennium' at Mid-Field and was joined by fellow club member Sean Silke, who was named at Centre-Back.
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