Moorefield GAA
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| Founded: | 1884 | ||||||||||||
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| County: | Kildare | ||||||||||||
| Nickname: | The Moors | ||||||||||||
| Colours: | Green and White | ||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Pollardstown, Newbridge | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 53°10′21″N 6°50′58″W / 53.172431°N 6.849471°WCoordinates: 53°10′21″N 6°50′58″W / 53.172431°N 6.849471°W | ||||||||||||
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Moorefield is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in County Kildare, Ireland, winner of six county senior football championships and three senior hurling championships.
Folklore records that in 1882 two brothers, John O'Kelly of Moorefield Road and James O'Kelly of Ballymany were instrumental in forming the first football team in Newbridge. Calling themselves the JJ O'Kellys they played matches against Mountrice, Eyrefield, Monasterevin, Kildare town and Milltown. In 1884, when the GAA was formed, the club changed its name from JJ O'Kelly's to Moorefield, the name of a townland in southern Newbridge.
RIC records from 1890 show that Moorefield JJ O'Kelly's had 100 members with Founding member's listed as Micheal and Patrick Behan, James Callaghan, John Langton, Thomas Lannery and John Dixon. John Murphy attended the 1889 convention. Moorefield were involved in the revival attempts of 1896 and 1901, and the Moorefield tournament was a highlight of the calendar in the early years of the century, forming an unofficial trial for the team that played in the 1903 All Ireland final.
Long the poor relations of Newbridge football, beside Roseberry, St. Conleth's and late Sarsfields, Moorefield's only county final appearance was by default in 1902. When their free-taker, Jim Scott, and three Fitzgeralds transferred to Roseberry for the 1903 championship and went on to play in the 1903 and 1905 All Ireland finals, Moorefield stepped down to junior ranks in 1905 from which they re-emerged in 1932. Promoted to senior after an Intermediate final appearance against Maynooth in 1957, they proved by winning a treble of Leader Cups, 1958–1960 (in fact they won the 1958 competition after they had won the 1959 and 1960 titles), that they could indeed match the best in senior football with the likes of Jimmy Dowling, Paddy Anderson, Denis Craddock, Jim and John Cummins, Jim McDermott, Joe Moran, Paddy Moore, Toss McCarthy Harry Fay and Darrell Edmonds on the team. Moorefield were beaten by Carbury in the county semi-final in 1960, and were only eliminated from the 1961 quarter-final in a replay. The 1962 county semi-final between Moorefield and Kilcock resulted in a bitter objection and three replays before Moorefield qualified for the final and duly beat Kilcullen in a one-sided final the following May. Moorefield, still in shape after a wintertime of semi-finals, stormed ahead with the help of a 14th minute Harry Fay goal, led 1–6 to 0–2 at half-time, and another from Robert Clinton at the three-quarters was only of statistical value. The Moorefield midfield that day was influential with both Paddy Moore and Paddy Anderson in fine form. Moorefield won out easy winners, 2–11 to 0–2 to claim their first Kildare Senior Football Championship title. Carbury then defeated Moorefield in the 1965 final.
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