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County: | Kilkenny | ||||||||
Colours: | Green and white | ||||||||
Grounds: | Urlingford | ||||||||
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Emeralds GAA is a junior Gaelic Athletic Association club located in Urlingford, County Kilkenny, Ireland. The club was founded in 1972 and almost exclusively fields teams in hurling. They spent 14 seasons in intermediate grade in Kilkenny before being relegated in 2015 back to the junior grade.
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