Clare Junior Hurling Championship

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Clare Junior A Hurling Championship
Irish Craobh Sóisear A Iomána an Chláir
Founded1926
No. of teams10
Title holders Colours of Laois.svg Kilmaley (4th title)
Most titles Yellow Green GAA Flag.png Inagh-Kilnamona (8 titles)
SponsorsMartin Murphy Building & Civil Contractors Ltd.

The Clare Junior A Hurling Championship (abbreviated to Clare JAHC) is an annual GAA club competition organised by the Clare County Board for hurling clubs below the Intermediate, Premier Intermediate and Senior grades. It is contested by the top-ranking junior clubs in County Clare, Ireland. It is the fourth-tier adult competition of the Clare hurling pyramid.

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The Clare JAHC was introduced in 1926 as a county-wide competition for hurling clubs deemed not eligible for the Senior grade, and was also opened in later years to the second-, third-, or fourth-string teams from higher-ranked clubs.

In 2025 the Clare County Board introduced three new grades to the Clare hurling pyramid (Premier Intermediate, Premier Junior B and Premier Junior C), with every grade below the sixteen-team Senior grade becoming a new or updated competition.

The winners of the Clare JAHC are promoted to the Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship for the following year.

The current (2024) champions are Kilmaley who defeated O'Callaghan's Mills by 0-24 to 0-12, to win their first title since 2006, and fourth overall at this grade.

Munster club qualification

The winners of the Clare JAHC also qualify to represent Clare in the Munster Junior Club Hurling Championship. However, if a second-, third-, or fourth-string team wins the Clare JFC, the highest finishing first-string team qualifies instead.

One Clare club has won the Munster Junior Club Hurling Championship:

No Clare club has progressed to the All-Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship.

Roll of honour

#ClubWinsYears won
1. Yellow Green GAA Flag.png Inagh-Kilnamona 81965 (as Kilnamona), 1971 (as Kilnamona), 1975 (as Kilnamona), 1984 (as Inagh), 1989 (as Kilnamona), 1993 (as Inagh), 1996 (as Kilnamona), 2014
2. Colours of Kilkenny.svg Bodyke 71929, 1942 (as Tuamgraney), 1946, 1957 (as Tuamgraney), 1961, 1986, 2017
Blue Red GAA Flag.png Parteen-Meelick GAA 1930 (as Meelick), 1945 (as Ardnacrusha), 1954 (as Parteen), 1968 (as Parteen), 1987 (as Meelick), 2005 (as Parteen), 2007 (as Meelick)
4. Colours of Clare.svg Sixmilebridge 61947 (as Cappa), 1949 (as Cappa), 1950, 1956 (as Cappa), 1981, 2016
Colours of Limerick.svg Wolfe Tones, Shannon 1931 (as Tradaree), 1943 (as Tradaree), 1974, 1979, 1995, 2008
6. Colours of Cork.svg Crusheen 51934, 1941, 1944, 1959, 2010
Blue Gold GAA Flag.png Newmarket-on-Fergus 1926, 1972, 1998, 2003, 2011
Colours of Galway.svg St. Joseph's, Doora-Barefield 1952, 1960, 1983, 2000, 2022
9. Gold Black GAA Flag.png Clonlara 41973, 1999, 2015, 2019
Colours of Laois.svg Cratloe 1935, 1964, 1976, 2013
Colours of Cork.svg Éire Óg, Ennis 1927 (as Ennis Dals), 1990, 2002, 2018
12. Colours of Kerry.svg Broadford 31939, 1955, 1958, 2023 (as Kilbane)
Colours of Kilkenny.svg Ballyea 1940, 1982, 1991
Colours of Cork.svg Corofin 1969, 1980, 2009
Blue Gold GAA Flag.png Killanena 1970, 1977, 1994
Colours of Laois.svg Kilmaley 1963, 2001, 2006, 2024
Colours of Kilkenny.svg Ogonnelloe 1937, 1988, 2021
Red Gold GAA Flag.png Smith O'Brien's, Killaloe 1967, 1978, 1997
19. Colours of Sligo.svg Clarecastle 21985, 2012
Colours of Mayo.svg Clooney-Quin 1933 (as Clooney), 1966 (as Clooney)
Yellow Green GAA Flag.png Feakle 1928, 1953 (as Bauroe)
Colours of Clare.svg Ruan 1932, 1948
Colours of Limerick.svg Scariff 1936, 1992
24. Colours of Kerry.svg Ennistymon 12004
Our Lady's Mental Hospital, Ennis1951
Colours of Kerry.svg O'Callaghan's Mills 2020
Colours of Kilkenny.svg Tubber 1962
Colours of Down.svg Whitegate 1938 (as Mountshannon)

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