Brackaville Owen Roes GFC

Last updated

Brackaville Owen Roes
Breac an Bhile Eoghain Rua
Founded:1938
County: Tyrone
Nickname:The Roes
Colours:Red & White
Grounds:Patrick O'Brien Park
Coordinates: 54°33′02.17″N6°42′52.79″W / 54.5506028°N 6.7146639°W / 54.5506028; -6.7146639
Playing kits
Kit left arm whitecuffpiping.png
Kit left arm.svg
Kit body.svg
Kit right arm whitecuffpiping.png
Kit right arm.svg
Kit shorts.svg
Kit socks long.svg
Standard
Kit left arm redshoulders.png
Kit left arm.svg
Kit body redshoulders.png
Kit body.svg
Kit right arm redshoulders.png
Kit right arm.svg
Kit shorts.svg
Kit socks long.svg
Reserve

Brackaville Owen Roes (Irish : Breac an Bhile Eoghain Rua) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club. The club is based in Brackaville, near Coalisland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. [1]

Contents

The club concentrates on Gaelic football, and the senior team in 2023 competes in Division 3 of the Tyrone All-County Football League and play in the Tyrone Junior Football Championship. [2] In December 2012 the club became 2012 Tyrone Junior Football Champions after a 16-year gap. [3]

History

Brackaville Owen Roes was founded in the summer of 1938 by some local men who decided that the Brackaville area needed its own football team. Repeated attempts to form the new club were blocked by Coalisland Na Fianna GAC, however.

Matt Symington, one of the men trying to form the club cycled to Cookstown to convince the Tyrone County Board to register Brackaville Owen Roes GFC as a club and succeeded.

Jerseys were provided by Charlie Hughes and in the first few years of Brackaville Owen Roes being a club they were quite successful, winning the 1940 Tyrone Junior Football Championship and 1942 Tyrone Junior league title, during this time they were considered to be one of the best clubs in County Tyrone.

In 1947 and 1948 Brackaville had 3 players that played for the Tyrone minor team that won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, however in 1954 the club fell on hard times and collapsed.

In 1959 the club was reformed by Seamus Duffin and Al Malloy. In 1965 Brackaville won the Junior League which got them into the intermediate ranks for the first time, that season they only lost twice, and won the league in a playoff. Brackaville found the tougher league more challenging but, in 1969 they won the Intermediate League too and advanced the club into Senior football for the first time.

During the 1970s the club's performances started to fall and they ended up back in the Junior League, it was during this time that Brackaville gained a home as before that they played only other club's pitches and different fields throughout the years. In the late 1970s due to a lack of players Brackaville joined with Stewartstown Harps to form the St Alban's team. In 1979 Brackaville won the Division 3 League Title after losing the Tyrone Junior Football Championship final, success also came in 1982 when Brackaville won the Under 14's League and won the Feis Cup that same year. The Reserve team also won the Division 2 title in 1983.

In 1992 the Brackaville Under 14's team won the County Title, in 1994 the Under 16's won the Grade 2 Championship, the same year the Minor team won the Grade 2 League Title and the team that won the Tyrone Oaks Board Competition, the same year in 1994 the Senior team got to the Junior League final but got beaten by Kildress and in 1995 the same team won the Micheal Duff Cup. In 1996 the senior team (under new management) won the Tyrone Junior Football Championship, and in 1998 the Minor team won the Grade 3 League.

In 1998 and 1999 the Under 14's were League Champions, also in 1999 Brackaville won their first Minor Championship. In 1999 Brackaville got their place in Senior Football by winning the Tyrone Intermediate Football Championship. In 2005 the Under 14's won the Under 14 League, the Brackaville Minor team also won the Championship a few months later, in 2006 the Under 14's yet again won 2 championships a grade 4 League, in 2007 the Under 16's won a Grade 2 Championship.

The club hasn’t been as successful in recent years however they did win the Tyrone Junior Football Championship in 2012 and 2015.

Achievements

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Armagh GAA</span> Governing body of the Gaelic games

The Armagh County Board or Armagh GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland, and is responsible for the administration of Gaelic games in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Derry GAA</span> Gaelic games governing body

The Derry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) or Derry GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland. It is responsible for Gaelic games in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. The county board is also responsible for the Derry county teams.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tyrone GAA</span> Gaelic games governing body

The Tyrone County Board, or Tyrone GAA, is one of the 32 county boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland, and is responsible for the administration of Gaelic games in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brackaville</span> Village and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

Brackaville or Bracaville is a village and townland near Coalisland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Dungannon Middle and the civil parish of Donaghenry and covers an area of 235 acres on the western side of Lough Neagh.

Damien O'Hagan is a former Gaelic footballer who played at senior level for the Tyrone county team. He played for his county at minor, under-21 and senior levels. While he was playing for Tyrone, the county won three Ulster Senior Football Championship (SFC) titles but never won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. He won an All Star Award in 1986, when he was part of the first Tyrone team to reach the All-Ireland SFC final, lost to Kerry by a scoreline of 2–15 to 1–10.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fintona Pearses GAC</span> Tyrone-based Gaelic games club

Fintona Pearses is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Fintona, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is a member of the Tyrone GAA county board and is named after the Irish poet and revolutionary, Patrick Pearse.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Clyda Rovers GAA</span> Gaelic sports club in County Cork, Ireland

Clyda Rovers is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the parish of Mourneabbey in County Cork, Ireland. The name of the club comes from the river which runs throughout the parish on its way to meet the River Blackwater. The club fields both senior Gaelic football and junior hurling teams. It is a member of Avondhu division of Cork GAA.

Coalisland Fianna is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the BIG town of Coalisland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The club was founded in 1903 and its home is Fr. Peter Campbell Park

Cookstown Fr. Rock's Gaelic Athletic Club 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.

Donaghmore St Patrick's is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the village of Donaghmore in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. They play in blue and gold colours.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stewartstown Harps GFC</span> Tyrone-based Gaelic games club

Stewartstown Harps is a Gaelic Athletic Association club which was founded in 1912 and based in the village of Stewartstown in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The club plays its games in Mullaghmoyle park.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trillick St Macartan's GAC</span> Tyrone-based Gaelic games club

Trillick St Macartan's is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the parish of Trillick in western County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It competes at Senior level in Tyrone GAA competitions. The club plays Gaelic football, ladies' Gaelic football and camogie.

Owen Roe O'Neill's Gaelic Athletic Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Tyrone GAA. The club is based in the parish of Leckpatrick, including the village of Glenmornan, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

The Tyrone Intermediate Football Club Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by mid-tier Tyrone GAA clubs.

The Tyrone Junior Football Club Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by lower-tier Tyrone GAA clubs. The Tyrone County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1904.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CLG Ógra Colmcille</span> Derry-based Gaelic games club

CLG Ógra Colmcille is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Drummullan, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of Derry GAA and currently competes in gaelic football.

Damian Cassidy, is a former Gaelic football manager and former player for the Derry county team in the 1980s and 1990s, who was part of the county's 1993 All-Ireland Championship winning side, starting at left half forward. He also won two Ulster Senior Championship medals, three National League titles, and a range of under-age inter-county medals with the county. Cassidy played his club football for Bellaghy Wolfe Tones and won five Derry Championships and the 1994 Ulster Senior Club Football Championships with the club. For both club and county he usually played as a forward. Cassidy was also a talented hurler.

Cill Na Martra GFC is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the parish of Kilnamartyra, Cork, Ireland. The club is a member of the Cork GAA and Muskerry divisional boards. The club fields teams in Gaelic football only, with no hurling played. The club is the home club of Noel O'Leary who won an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal with Cork in 2010. It is also the home club of the famous footballing brothers Big John and The Butcher Corrie Riordan. Credited locally for introducing the Mullet hair style to the Gaeltacht.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St Michael's GAC, Newtownhamilton</span> Armagh-based Gaelic games club

St Michael's Gaelic Athletic Club, Newtownhamilton is a GAA club in Armagh. It's playing fields fall within the townland of Tullyvallan, including the village of Newtownhamilton, in south County Armagh. St Michael's plays Gaelic football and is currently in the Armagh Junior Football Championship.

Hugh Joseph O'Neill, known as Jody O'Neill, was a Gaelic footballer and manager from Northern Ireland. At club level he played with Coalisland Na Fianna and at inter-county level with the Tyrone senior football team.

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 November 2007. Retrieved 28 March 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ↑ : : Tyrone GAA : : Archived 3 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Bridging a 16 year gap, Brackaville take title". Tyrone Times. 13 December 2012. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
  4. ↑ moysphillymc (29 November 2015). "Tyrone Junior Football Championship 2015". MoysPhillyMc. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.