Natural landmarks · Northern Ireland
Cookstown Fr. Rock's GAC
Cookstown Fr. Rock's GAC in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Cookstown Fr. Rock's GAC is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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Cookstown Fr. Rock's Gaelic Athletic Club (Irish: CLG an tAth. Mac Con Carraige, An Chorra Chríochach) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Cookstown in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The club fields male and female teams across a multitude of age groups ranging from Under 6s to senior level. Their home ground, Paddy Cullen Park, is located at 1 Convent Lane, Cookstown, just behind Holy Trinity Primary School and Holy Trinity College. In recent years Owen Mulligan and Raymond Mulgrew have both won All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medals with the Tyrone senior team. The club also had five players who won All-Ireland Minor Football Championship medals on the same day in 2004.
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Background
History
In 1889 the first GAA club in Tyrone, Cookstown Owen Roe's, was established, just five years after the foundation of the Gaelic Athletic Association. In 1889 the prevailing political climate was one in which association with the GAA was not something to be sought. Numerous files from Dublin castle can bear testimony to this fact. Despite this Fr John Rock, a curate in Cookstown, initiated efforts to form the Owen Roe's club, and they were soon to fulfil fixtures with teams from Armagh, Derry and Belfast. The magazine Sport reported a game between the Owen Roe's and Armagh Harps, played on St Patrick's Day, 1889. It is quite possible that this was the first competitive outing of a team from…
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- Coordinates
- 54.6424, -6.7506
- Established
- 1938
Sources
- wikidata: Q5167208 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Cookstown Fr. Rock's GAC (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Cookstown Fr. Rock's GAC?
- Cookstown Fr. Rock's GAC is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.6424°, -6.7506°.
- When was Cookstown Fr. Rock's GAC built?
- Cookstown Fr. Rock's GAC dates to 1938.