Raheens
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| Founded: | 1925 | ||||||||||||
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| County: | Kildare | ||||||||||||
| Nickname: | The Heens | ||||||||||||
| Colours: | Blue and Saffron | ||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Tom Lawler Park, Gingerstown, Caragh | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 53°14′03″N 6°43′11″W / 53.23428°N 6.71962°WCoordinates: 53°14′03″N 6°43′11″W / 53.23428°N 6.71962°W | ||||||||||||
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Raheens /ræˈhiːnz/ is a Gaelic football club based in Caragh, County Kildare, Ireland, winner of the Leinster senior club championship in 1981, 10 county senior football championships, first winners of the Kildare club of the year in 1973 and winners again in 1976. The separate hurling club, formerly known as Éire Óg, has now amalgamated to become Éire Óg-Corrachoill. Pat Dunny was the only player chose for both the Kildare football and hurling teams of the millennium, one of two players to play hurling and football for Leinster on the same day, a Cuchulainn All Stars Award winner in 1967 and later chairman of Kildare GAA county board. Mick Mullins was also chosen on the Kildare hurling team of the millennium.
The inaugural meeting of a Prosperous & Blackwood team, Sir T Esmonde's, attracted 140 members in February 1888 under the patronage of Caragh parish priest, Father Kinsella, and a British army veteran, Captain Fitzpatrick. Their rivals, Tim Healy's, were set up at Digby Bridge and reached the Kildare senior football semi-final in 1890. In 1897 three clubs from the Parish entered the county championship, Caragh, Digby Bridge and Prosperous. Dick Radley of Prosperous spearheaded the 1901 GAA revival in Kildare and Prosperous contested the county final of 1903. Blacktrench was formed in 1915, amalgamated with Caragh and then Raheens was formed. The relationship between Caragh and Raheens is a complicated one. The Raheens GAA pitch is near Caragh village, while the Caragh club is in Prosperous.
Blacktrench GFC, from which the Raheens club evolved, won the Junior Championship in 1916 with a team that included three Heaveys (a fourth was substitute), two Campbells, three Malones, and three Stanleys. They beat defending champions Maynooth in their first senior championship match but lost to Kilcock after a fiery game that was the subject of a county board investigation.
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