Two Mile House GAA

Two Mile House

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Founded:	1885
County:	Kildare
Nickname:	'The House'
Grounds:	Harristown Common
Coordinates:	53°09′43″N6°41′28″W / 53.162°N 6.691°W / 53.162; -6.691
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Two Mile House is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in County Kildare, Ireland. The club's grounds are located on The Commons, just off the Dunlavin Road, in Two Mile House parish. The parish of Two Mile House is surrounded by the towns of Naas, Newbridge and Kilcullen.

Two Mile House won the 2014 All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship after defeating Fuerty of Roscommon in February 2014. In 2018, the club won the Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship after beating Shamrocks GAA from Offaly in the final.^{[ citation needed ]}

Gaelic football

Since the late 1990s, the focus of the club had been largely on Gaelic football.^{[ citation needed ]} As of 2015,^{[ needs update ]} the club men's senior football team was playing in the Intermediate Championship and League Division 2.^{[ citation needed ]}

Some of the notable achievements of club players, at county level, include:^{[ original research? ]}

• Jimmy O'Connor won an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal with Kildare in 1919.
• Maurice Colbert (also won a Leinster minor medal), Shane Darcy and Christopher Burke are all holders of Leinster Under-21 Football Championship medals. Adam Conneely won a Leinster u20 medal in 2022.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Peter Kelly won an All Star for the corner back position in 2010.
• Mark Sherry, Chris Healy, Adam Burke & Richard Drumgoole Maguire won a Leinster minor championship with Kildare in 2013. ^[1] Mark Sherry captained the side and Chris Healy won the Man of the Match Award in the Leinster final.

Hurling

The club also fields teams at several levels in underage hurling.^{[ citation needed ]}

Camogie

A camogie club, representing the area, competed in the 1950s and 1960s. It beat Caragh 5-0 to 4-2 to win the 1967 county championship. The team got to the Leinster in the 1956 inter-provincial final, and also being selected on the Kildare camogie team of the century.^{[ citation needed ]} Two Mile House camogie club revived briefly in 1991 and had several years of underage success until the late 1990s.^{[ citation needed ]}

Honours

• Kildare Intermediate Football Champions 2018.
• Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship 2018.
• Leinster Junior Club Football Championship 2013 ^[2]
• All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship: 2014 ^[3]
• Kildare Junior A Championship: 1994, 2013
• Kildare Junior C Football Championship 1979
• Kildare Junior Football League 1935, 1979
• Kildare Senior Camogie Championship: 1967
• The Leinster Leader Junior Club Cup 2000
• Kildare Junior B Football Championship and League 2004
• Kildare Minor Football League Div 4 2005.
• Kildare Minor B Football Championship 2006, 2017
• Kildare Senior Football League Division 3: 2008, 2013, 2017
• Dowling Cup 2013
• Jack Higgins Cup 2013

Notable players

• Peter Kelly

References

1. Eugene McGee: Two mile house punching well above their weight, The Independent, July 15, 2013, https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/two-mile-house-punching-well-above-their-weight-29419959.html, accessed 27 Aug 2022.
2. "Healy the Two Mile House hero". Irish Examiner . 2 December 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
3. "All-Ireland glory for five-goal Two Mile House | Daily News | GAA News". GAA.ie. 9 February 2014. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2014.

Bibliography

• Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, ISBN   0-9509370-0-2 hb ISBN   0-9509370-1-0 pb
• Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
• Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.

External links

• Two Mile House GAA website
• Club website (archived 2009)