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Longford GAA

County board of the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland

Summary

County board of the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland

FieldValue
nameLongford GAA
crestLongford-GAA.png
irishAn Longfort
nicknameMidlanders
provinceLeinster
dominant sportGaelic football
groundsPearse Park, Longford
county coloursRoyal blue Gold
nfl divDivision 4 (2024)
nhl divDivision 3B (2024)
football champTailteann Cup
hurling champLory Meagher Cup
ladies footballMary Quinn Memorial Cup

The Longford County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) () or Longford GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Longford. The county board is also responsible for the Longford county teams.

The county football team won its only National Football League title in 1966 with a one-point victory over Galway in the Home Final and an aggregate win over New York in the Final. The team won its only Leinster Senior Football Championship title in 1968, with a 3-9 to 1-4 win over Laois.

Clubs

The county board oversees 22 GAA clubs, the lowest number of any county in Ireland. The current total of 22 clubs is down from 24 in 2009 which at the time was the smallest in the country, below Sligo, which had 26 back then and now has 23 clubs.

(F) Football | (H) Hurling | (HB) Handball | (C) Camogie

  • Abbeylara (F/HB)
  • Ardagh Moydow (F)
  • Ballymahon (F)*
  • Ballymore (F)
  • Carrickedmond (F)
  • Cashel (F)
  • Clonguish (F/H/HB)
  • Colmcille (F)
  • Dromard (F)
  • Fr. Manning Gaels (F/HB)
  • Kenagh (F)
  • Killoe Young Emmets (F)
  • Legan Sarsfields (F)
  • Longford Slashers (F/H)
  • Mostrim (D)
  • Mullinalaghta St Columba's (F)
  • Rathcline (F)
  • Seán Connollys (F)
  • St. Brigid's Killashee (F)
  • St. Mary's Granard (F)
  • St. Munis Forgney (F)*
  • Young Grattans (F)

( St. Munis Forgney & Ballymahon compete as a Group Team in adult competition since 2022)*

Three hurling clubs exist within the above list of GAA clubs:

  • Clonguish Gaels
  • Longford Slashers
  • Wolfe Tones (Mostrim)

Football

Clubs

11 clubs contest the Longford Senior Football Championship.

Killoe Young Emmets are the current Longford Senior Football champions (as of 2025).

Mullinalaghta St Columba's won the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship in 2018.

County team

Main article: Longford county football team

Longford won the National Football League in 1966, then the 1968 Leinster Senior Football Championship. The county has never won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Hurling

Clubs

3 clubs contest the Longford Senior Hurling Championship.

Longford Slashers are the current Longford Senior Hurling champions (as of 2025).

County team

Like most of its neighbours, Longford have struggled to compete with the bigger counties as they only have three Hurling teams in the county, Slashers, Wolfe Tones and Clonguish. The county team won the National League Division 3 title in 2002, In 2005 & 2006 they won the Leinster Shield. They won the Lory Meagher Cup, for the first time, in Croke Park on 3 July 2010 and won on a scoreline 1 – 20 to Donegal 1 – 12.

Liam Griffin has said the GAA should be ashamed of itself over its failure in the promotion of hurling.

Leinster SHC

Longford competed in just two seasons, with a walkover to Wexford in the 1902 season (played in November 1903) and a loss to Westmeath in the 1903 season (played in July 1904). After 1904 Longford played in Junior Hurling Championship. Longford remains the only county in Leinster never to win a provincial hurling championship at any grade.

Matches

  • 1902: Longford scr. - w/o Wexford
  • 1903: Longford 1-00 - 2-09 Westmeath

Championship Titles

  • Lory Meagher Cup: (2)
  • All Ireland Minor C Championship (2)
    • 1997, 2000
  • All Ireland Juvenile C Championship (2)
    • 1982, 1984

League Titles

  • National Hurling League Division 3 (1)
  • National Hurling League Division 3B (3)
    • 2013, 2017, 2019
  • National Hurling League Division 4 (2)
  • All Ireland Minor Hurling League Division 3 (1)
    • 1997 ?

Provincial Cups & Shields

  • Kehoe Cup (1)
  • Leinster Junior Hurling Shield (2)
    • 2005, 2006

References

References

  1. "Leinster SFC".
  2. "Club Details".
  3. (9 May 2009). "GAA clubs by numbers". Irish Independent.
  4. (12 October 2025). "Longford SFC Final: McGoldrick point the winner for Emmet Óg".
  5. (10 December 2018). "Wilderness to Leinster champions - Mullinalaghta story sums up magic of club game". The 42.
  6. (9 December 2018). "Mullinalaghta pull off seismic shock and stun Kilmacud in Leinster football final". The 42.
  7. (11 October 2025). "Longford Slashers withstand Wolfe Tones comeback to win the county senior hurling title for the 13th time".
  8. Breheny, Martin. (27 October 2012). "All Stars bright lights hide darker side of hurling". Independent News & Media.
  9. "Longford SHC matches".
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