St. Mary's GFC
Encyclopedia
St. Mary's is a Gaelic Athletic Association
club based in the western ward of the town of Sligo
, Republic of Ireland
.
, having done so on three occasions.
Gaelic Athletic Association
The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...
club based in the western ward of the town of Sligo
Sligo
Sligo is the county town of County Sligo in Ireland. The town is a borough and has a charter and a town mayor. It is sometimes referred to as a city, and sometimes as a town, and is the second largest urban area in Connacht...
, Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
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History
The club was formed in 1976 from the amalgamation of the Craobh Rua and Muire Naofa clubs. It is the only Sligo club to have won the Connacht Senior Club Football ChampionshipConnacht Senior Club Football Championship
The Connacht Senior Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football tournament played between the seventy-two senior football clubs in Connacht, with one qualifying from each of the five respective county championships...
, having done so on three occasions.
Honours
- Connacht Senior Club Football ChampionshipConnacht Senior Club Football ChampionshipThe Connacht Senior Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football tournament played between the seventy-two senior football clubs in Connacht, with one qualifying from each of the five respective county championships...
:- 1977, 1980, 1983
- All-Ireland Football Sevens Championship:
- 1980
- Sligo Senior Football Championship:
- 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1996, 2001
- Sligo Junior Football ChampionshipSligo Junior Football ChampionshipThe Sligo Junior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the lower-tier Sligo teams, at present composed entirely of reserve teams from the various clubs in the county...
:- 1993, 1996, 2000
- Sligo Junior 'B' Football Championship:
- 1998
- Sligo Under 20 Football ChampionshipSligo Under 20 Football ChampionshipThe Sligo Under-20 Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association competition between the Under-20 panels of the clubs in Sligo. Up to 2006 this was the Under-21 Championship, but a decision was taken to hold the Championship a year earlier The Sligo Under-20 Football Championship...
:- 1985, 1986, 2000
- Sligo Minor Football ChampionshipSligo Minor Football ChampionshipThe Sligo Minor Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the Under-18 teams of the various clubs in Sligo, and concentrated to the leading underage clubs in recent years. Previously it operated on a divisional basis, but since the early 1990s it has...
:- 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1997, 2011
- Sligo Under-16 Football Championship:
- 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1995, 1997, 2004, 2010, 2011
- Sligo Under-14 Football Championship:
- 1976, 1978, 1979, 1988, 2002, 2008, 2011
- Sligo Senior Football League (Division 1)Sligo Senior Football League (Division 1)The Sligo Senior Football League is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club league competition between the top Sligo clubs, operating in Division 1 of the league...
:- 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1988
- Sligo Senior Football League (Division 2)Sligo Senior Football League (Division 2)The Sligo Senior Football League Division 2 is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club league competition between the Sligo clubs operating in the Senior League, though not in the top division. This split has been in place since 2004, when the Division was known as Division 1B. The finalists are...
:- 2010
- Sligo Junior Football League (Division 5):
- 1987, 1996
- Kiernan Cup:
- 1980, 1983, 1987, 2008, 2010