Fossa is located on the shores of
Lough Lein, in the shade of the McGillycuddy Reeks four miles
west of Killarney town.Fossa GAA Club was founded on
the 11th of January 1970 under the Chairmanship of
the late Michael O’Connor with Fr.Patrick Browne as President,
Vice Chairman Jer Buckley, Secretary Gene Moriarty, Treasurer
the late Danny Coffey and Committee members Pat Sweeney, Richard
Williams, Brendan Lynch, Dermot Brosnan, John Geaney, Mick
Spillane, Tom Long and Michael Collins. It is due to their
action, courage, foresight and especially their commitment to
the GAA that the Red and Black of Fossa was established and grew
to the strong and healthy club it is today.
The club leased a field from the Liebherr Firm in 1972 and
the following year fielded its first senior team in the East
Kerry League and Championship and in Division 4 of the County
League.
In the early 1990’s the club decided to purchase their own
land at Gortroe in the Eastern part of the parish for the sum of
£110,000 (€139,671) from the Southern Health Board.
After many fundraising events including a Car Raffle, Club
Person of the Year Competition, Race Nights and the Lotto Draw
the club cleared the Field debt and proceeded to plan the
development.
In April of 1998 Club President and former Parish Priest
the late Fr. James Galvin turned the sod to mark the start of
the field development at Gortroe. The Club Chairman Brendan
O’Sullivan, Committee and club members gathered for this
historic moment in the Club’s History.
The first stage of the development at Gortroe was
completed by contractor Patrick Finn, Kilcummin under the
supervision of Michael O’Shea Ballyferriter in 1999.
The year 2000 was marked as a special year by our
President the late Fr.James Galvin blessing our new fields at
Gortroe on August 13th. All club teams played that
day with the high point being a win by our senior team against
Kilgarvan in the Kerry County League. Young Padraig O’Sullivan (Curragh)
made his own bit of history by scoring the first point for Fossa
in the new grounds.
The club has a bright future with a marvelous underage
structure in place and we hope to build on their success on the
field on play.
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