Newcastle West GAA
| An Caisleán Nua Thiar | |||||||||||||
| Founded: | 1887 | ||||||||||||
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| County: | Limerick | ||||||||||||
| Nickname: | The Magpies | ||||||||||||
| Colours: | Black and white | ||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Newcastle West | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 52.452472281957164, -9.06420886516571 | ||||||||||||
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Newcastle West GAA club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in Newcastle West, County Limerick, Ireland. The club was founded in 1887 and fields teams in both hurling and Gaelic football.
Caisleain Nua Thiar Gaa Club was founded in 1897. The early years seem to have been lean years as Newcastlewest did not emerge until 1908, when it reached the Senior final with Kilmallock, losing 2-08 to 0-3. The Newcastle west footballers were still playing senior football through the 1900s through to 1928, where records show that Glin beat them in the west final of that year 0-12 to 0-01.
It seems that they had an auspicious beginning as a Hurling club with no success prior to WW1 as from 1917 to 1933, Newcastle are a force to be reckoned with winning numerous west and contesting 7 senior county finals during this period winning in 1917 Vs. Young Irelands(3-4 to 3-1) and 1925 Vs. Buff (3-2 to 1-2). The 1918 decider Vs. Claughan was not played and we played second fiddle to Young Irelands in 1920 (5-4 to 1-1), Claughan in 1926 1-4 to 5-3), Young Irelands again in 1930 (2-2 to 1-4) and 1932 (1-3 to 2-6). It looks like their golden age in top flight Hurling ended in 1932. The late 1930s emerged again with success for our minor Hurlers winning a first county title in that grade beating Claughan 7-5 to 0-1, and we reclaimed the County Junior Football title in 1938 beating Killmallock 0-4 to 0-3.
The 1940s began well, winning a West minor hurling title but losing the county final to Ahane (6-1 to 3-1), this title along with a West Junior Football title in 1945 being its only successes on the GAA Field until 1949 when another minor hurling team won a west Title giving huge optimism for the 1950s.
Emigration put paid to this. The 1950s will be noted for much success in the west in minor hurling and football and junior football. The major success of the 1950s was the acquisition and development of the present field in the Demense.
The 1960s started very well with success in County junior final beating Monaleen 2-2 to 2-0, we continued this success on the football field with a win the West minor in 1962 beating Abbeyfeale 3-5 to 2-7 and in 1965 winning the U21 beating Glin 2-3 to 0-4, and a fourth County junior football title in 1966 beating St Patrick’s 1-12 to 1-5. Progress was also made in the game of hurling during the 1960s, winning west minor titles in 1960, 61 and 65.
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