History

Templeport’s G.A.A. Achievements

Senior Championship      1923

Senior League 1924, 1945, 1975

Intermediate Championship  1923, 1924, 1977, 1995.

Junior Championship       1922, 1923, 1929, 1930, 1942, 1968

Bawnboy Gallowglasses, founded in 1888, was the first GAA club in Templeport Parish. Another club, Templeport Raparees was founded in the southern end of the parish in 1891. A few years later, both clubs had disappeared. Templeport St. Aidan’s G.A.A. Club was founded on 11th December 1910 and has been in existence ever since. Over the years they have won one Senior Football Championship (1923), four Senior Leagues, four Intermediate Championships and six Junior Championships. The club had no permanent football pitch during their first seventy years and played at more than twenty different venues during that time. In 1962 they acquired a field from the Irish Land Commission on the Bawnboy Demesne, on which they carried out extensive development including the building of modern dressing rooms.

To cater for ever increasing demands of underage competition and the provision of training facilities for girls as well as boys, the club is seeking new and much larger grounds. Two permanent pitches are required as well as space for training.

This is a huge venture which could cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, but Templeport GAA club is confident that Parish pride and generosity will overcome these obstacles.