HISTORY PAGE
ANNAGHDOWN G.A.A 1887-2001
The club was formed in 1887 and its history is documented in ''Annaghdown G.A,A 1887-1989.
The first game of football was played on July 31 1887 in John Cummins field in Corrandulla,With teams from Corofin and Caherlistrane it was a great sporting event,
Hurling can be traced back to 1926,when local teams played tournaments as there were no organised competition at the time,In 1928 Annaghdown won a hurling tournament played in Augclogeen.
In 1929 we lost a West board junior football final to Carna,but the following year we won West championship,but lost to Tuam in the county final,we had to go senior the following year.The 1931 championship began with a win over Oughterard,As no semi-finals were played we were in the county final against Ballinasloe,we won the final by 4-2 to 0-13,we also won the west minor championship that year .
Ricky Burke played minor for Galway in 1936 and 1937,In 1944 we won the west board championship, Junior football titles were won in1938,1956 and1958. Our next big win was in 1970 when we won the county Junior title again ,and that was the launching pad for senior league titles in 1975,76 and 1983 and of course county senior champions titles in 1982,85 and 1987.
On the hurling front our first major win was in 1955 when we beat Cussane in the league final,We lost to Abbey in the championship in 1956,Athenry beat us in the north final the following year by 6-6 to 4-5.
In 1962 we beat Abbeyknockmoy in the north final 1-7 to 0-2 but lost to Killimordaly in the county semi-final by 3-13 to 2-9,We also won the north final in 1964,65,and we were Intermediate in 1966
1967 Saw us back to junior again and the next ten years was a mixed bag of results,But 1979 we made history to win the county 'B' title beating St Thomas by 4-7 to 3-5.
1980 We became the first club in Galway to Win Feile when we beat Moycullen in the final
THE EIGHTIES IN FOOTBALL
We won three senior County Finals starting with 1982 followed by 1985 and 1987 and we lost another to Tuam in 1989, In 1982 we beat Ballinasloe by 1-9to 1-7 in the fist round and had a two point win over Kilkererin in the Quarter-Final 0-10 to 0-8.
The Semi-Final was against Dunmore McHales and another close call as the score was 0-7 to 0-6 ,The final was against Val Dalys Mountbellew and we were the underdogs,but as the local press stated the following week-end "ANNAGHDOWN'S JOY DAY" The cup was back on winning scoreline of 1-9 to 0-7. We lost to Tourlestrane in the Connacht Semi-Final by 0-9 to 0-7.
In 1985 the Championship was run on a league grouping with four groups of four teams with the top two in each group going into the knockout quarter-finals,We were grouped with Cortoon,Tuam Stars and St Gabriels.We beat Cortoon in our first game by1-11 to 0-6 ,we drew with Tuam 1-8 each,and were lucky to beat St Gabriels by one point1-7 to 1-6.The quarter-final was against Caherlistrane and it was a last minute point that saw us advance to the Semi-Finals.
Tuam Stars were our next test and once again it went down to the wire and another one point win 0-9 to 1-5 and we were in the County Final again, This time against Monivea/Abbknockmoy.The Final was a low scoring game and it finished 0-6 each.
The re-play saw Annaghdown lead by 1-7 to 0-0 at half-time,But at the end is all so close with only two points in our favour 1-8 to 1-6, with Michael Burke scoring 1-4 of our total and received the 'Man of the match award. In the Connacht Club we beat Gortletteragh from Leitrim by 4-9 to 0-6, but lost to Ballina Stephenites in the semi-final by 1-7 to 1-4 .
Gerry Forde was senior footballer of the year in Galway.
The 1987 Championship saw us in a group with Corofin, St Brendans and St Grellans,We beat St.Grellans in our first game by 0-10 to 0-5, and followed that with a 2-13 to 0-12 win over St.Brendans,and we lost to Corofin in the final group game,but at that stage both teams were in the quarter-finals.Salthill were our next team to play and we won the quarter final by 0-10 to 0-3.
The semi-final was against Tuam Stars and we won with only one to spare 0-11 to 0-10 despite the fact that we lead by seven points early in the second half,The final was against Milltown who were the fancied to win out.The papers the next week said it all.
'GLORY DAY FOR TEAM OF THE DECADE' 'CHAMPION SHOW BY ANNAGHDOWN'
We won by 1-7 to 0-7 with Tom Naughton scoring the match winning goal,and we winning our third county cup since 1982 and Willie Hughes won the man of the award, In the Connacht Club we lost to Ballina Stephenites in Cregg by 1-6 to 0-6
In 1989 we lost our first County Final to Tuam Stars by 2-9 to 0-5 after beating St Michaels,Ballinasloe and Corofin in the early rounds as the Championship was back to a knock-out system again.
THE ABOVE DATA IS TAKEN FROM 'ANNAGHDOWN G.A.A 1887-1989' THE CLUB HISTORY WAS PUBLISHED IN NOVEMBER 1990
SENIOR LEAGUE 2002 FACTS
ANNAGHDOWN 2-14------KILKERERIN 1-7 (H)
ANNAGHDOWN 0-11-------COROFIN 1-7 (H)
ANNAGHDOWN 2-7---------CALTRA 1-14 (A)
ANNAGHDOWN 1-9---------DUNMORE 1-7 (H)
ANNAGHDOWN 2-11 MOYCULLEN 1-7 (A)
ANNAGHDOWN 0-10 V SALTHILL 1-10 (a)
ANNAGHDOWN 1-11---------- MONIVEA 1-5
ANNAGHDOWN 0-10 ------- CARRAROE 0-10
ANNAGHDOWN walk-over MOUNTBELLEW
SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP 2002
ANNAGHOWN 1-7 MOUNTBELLEW 1-12
ANNAGHDOWN 1-14 BARNA 0-11
ANNAGHDOWN 3-17 OUGHTERARD 2-10
ANNAGHDOWN 2-13 ORANMORE 0-11
ANNAGHDOWN 0-9 MOUNTBELLEW 0-8
ANNAGHDOWN 2-2 COROFIN 3-11
SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP 2002 FACTS
JULY 7 V MOUNTBELLEW 1-07***1-12
TEAM GERRY CAHILL,VINCENT SMALL,ADRIAN FITZPATRICK,MARTIN O' NEILL,LIAM O' FLYNN,RONAN LEONARD,ALAN CURRY,MATT DUGGAN, KEVIN KEANE,MICHAEL MELIA,(1-0),NIALL COLEMAN,BENNY NEWELL,DAMIEN BURKE(0-3)MICHAEL NEWELL(0-3)P.J FAHY (0-1) SUB CARL LEONARD FOR BENNY NEWELL
JULY 14 V BARNA 1-14***0-11
TEAM: PADRAIC MANNION,VINCENT SMALL,ADRIAN FITZPATRICK,MARTIN O'NEILL,LIAM O'FLYNN,MORGAN DUGGAN,RONAN LEONARD,MATT DUGGAN,KEVIN KEANE,MICHAEL MELIA,MICHAEL NEWELL(1-5)NIALL COLEMAN (0-2)DAMIEN BURKE(0-5)CARL LEONARD,P.J.FAHY(0-2) SUB JOHN MANNION FOR MICHAEL MELIA (INJ)
AUGUST 17 V OUGHTERARD 3-17***2-10
TEAM : GERYRY CAHILL,VINCENT SMALL,ADRIAN FITZPATRICK,BENNY NEWELL,BRIAN QUALTER,MORGAN DUGGAN,MARTIN O' NEILL,MATT DUGGAN,NIALL COLEMAN (0-1) MICHAEL MELIA (0-4) MICHAEL NEWELL (1-6), RONAN LEONARD,DAMIEN BURKE (1-5) CARL LEONARD (1-1) LIAM O' FLYNN SUBS P J FAHY FOR MATT DUGGAN AND JOHN MANNION FOR MICHAEL MELIA
SEPTEMBER 15 V ORANMORE QUARTER-FINAL 2-13***0-11
TEAM: GERRY CAHILL,VINCENT SMALL,ADRIAN FITZPATRICK,BENNY NEWELL,BRIAN QUALTER,RONAN LEONARD,MARTIN O'NEILL,MORGAN DUGGAN(0-1),NIALLCOLEMAN(0-1)MICHAEL MELIA(0-2)MICHAEL NEWELL(1-2),LIAM O'FLYNN (1-1) DAMIEN BURKE(0-5)CARL LEONARD,SHANE KAVANAGH. SUBS: JOHN MANNION,PAUL CREAVEN AND MATT DUGGAN(0-1)
OCTOBER 27 SEMI-FINAL V MOUNTBELLEW 0-9 ***0-8
TEAM: GERRY CAHILL, VINCENT SMALL,ADRIAN FITZPATRICK,BENNY NEWELL,BRIAN QUALTER, PAUL CREAVEN, MARTIN O'NEILL,MATT DUGGAN,NIALL COLEMAN,MICHAEL MELIA(0-2)MICHAEL NEWELL(0-2)DAMIEN BURKE(0-4)CARL KEONARD,LIAM O'FLYNN. SUBS:SHANE KAVANAGH(0-1) MORGAN DUGGAN,KEVIN KEANE AND P.J.FAHY
NOVEMBER 3 FINAL V COROIN 2-2 ***3-11
TEAM: GERRY CAHILL, VINCENT SMALL,ADRIAN FITZPATRICK, BENNY NEWELL,BRIAN QUALTER,PAUL CREAVEN,MARTIN O' NEILL, MATT DUGGAN, NIALL COLEMAN, MICHAEL MELIA, MORGAN DUGGAN,RONAN LEONARD,DAMIEN BURKE (1-1) MICHAEL NEWELL(1-10) SHANE KAVANAGH. SUBS:KEVIN KEANE,LIAM O'FLYNN,P.J.FAHY,CARL LEONARD
HURLING DRAWS 2002 RESULTS
JUNIOR 'A' ANNAGHDOWN 2.12 ---- 1-12 BALLINDREEN
ANNAGHDOWN 0-8 ---- 0-7 KILCONIERON
ANNAGHDOWN 0-9 --- 2-3 MELLICK/EYRECOURT
ANNAGHDOWN 2-10 --- 0-7 CLARENBRIDGE * Q/INAL
ANNAGHDOWN 1-10 ---- 1-5 BALLYGAR* SEMI-FINAL
ANNAGHDOWN 1-7------------TURLOUGHMORE 2-4 FINAL
ANNAGHDOWN 1-13******TURLOUGHMORE 0-14
COUNTY TEAMS
This is a list of club players who played on county teams since 1990
1993 Minor football Kevin Keane and Dara Glynn
1994 Minor football Kevin Keane*Under -21 Dermot Naughton
1995 Minor football Shane Kavanagh and Michael Newell
1995 Under-21 football Alan Kavanagh
1996 Senior football/Under -21 Kevin Keane*Minor Michael Newell
1997 Under -21 football Kevin Keane
1997 Minor football/hurling Ronan Leonard
1998 Minor football Ronan Leonard ,Benny Newell , Damien Newell and Brian Quarter Minor hurling Ronan Leonard
1999 Under-21 football Michael Newell and Ronan Leonard
1999 Minor football Damien Burke
2000 Under-21 football Ronan Leonard,Benny Newell and Damien Burke
2001 Under-21 football Ronan Leonard,Benny Newell and Damien Burke
2002 MINOR Football Niall Coleman
UNDER-21 Football Damien Burke ,Martin O' Neill
SENIOR Football Ronan Leonard
Galway Over-40 football All-Ireland Winners 1999
Gerry Forde,Frank Broderick and Mattie Coleman
THE PARISH OF ANNAGHDOWN
THE PARISH IS SITUATED IN THE BARONY OF CLARE AND BOUNDED ON THE WEST SIDE BY THE CORRIB
RIVER AND ON THE EAST SIDE BY THE MAIN GALWAY-TUAM ROAD.
THE MAP INSERT SHOWS CLOONBOO AND THE VILLAGE IS IN MID PARISH WITH GALWAY CITY AND
HEADFORD ABOUT EIGHT MILES AWAY IN EACH DIRECTION.THE NAME ANNAGHDOWN OR EANACHDUN (ANACH
CUAIN) WAS DERIVED FROM LOCAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HEADLAND WHICH EXTENDS INTO THE
WATERS OF THE CORRIB-DUN SIGNIFYING THE FORT WHICH ONCE EXIXTED THERE AND ENACH THE MARSH
OR BOG WHICH SURROUNDED IT.
THE PARISH ALSO HAS HISTORIC ECCLESIASTICAL ASSOCIATIONS. IT WAS FOR A TIME IN THE EARLY
CHRISTIAN PERIOD THE SEAT OF THE FIFTH BISHOP OF CONNACHT AND BRENDAN OF CLONFERT HAD IN
THE 6th CENTURY CHOSEN ANNAGHDOWN AS A SITE FOR ONE OF HIS MANY FOUNDATIONS.
ANNAGHDOWN IS IN COUNTY GALWAY ,ON THE WEST OF IRELAND 130 MILES WEST OF DUBLIN ON THE
EDGE OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
