Golden–Kilfeacle GAA

Golden–Kilfeacle GAA club is located in the parish of Golden, five miles from Cashel in County Tipperary, Ireland. The club plays hurling and Gaelic football and is one of the few clubs in West Tipperary to win both the West Tipperary Senior Hurling and Football Championships. The club was known in the past as the Golden Fontenoys, named in memory of the Franco-Irish army soldiers who took the field at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745. Inter-county player William "Bill" O'Donnell played with the Fontenoys in the 1930s. He later transferred to Éire Óg Annacarty, where he was headmaster of the school in Annacarty. O'Donnell was a member of the Tipperary team that won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship in 1937 when the final was played in Killarney. Other inter-county players include Joe Fogarty in the 1960s, Ned O'Donnell in the 1970s, John Looby who was a minor of inter-county fame in the same decade. In more recent times, Shane O' Connell played Senior football for Tipperary many years, as well as Josh Keane who was a dual star for Tipperary, where he played U21 hurling and Senior football in the same year. Jack Leamy also made his debut with the Tipperary senior hurlers in 2026 in a National Hurling League game against Galway. Many players in recent years have represented Tipperary underage at minor and U20 level in both codes, such as Niall Heffernan, Ben Currivan, Eanna Ormond , Ciaran Byrne, Eoin Marnane, Charlie Hall, Sam Hall,James Finn and Jack Donnelly. Ben Currivan captained Tipperary to a U20 Munster Final Hurling success in 2024. Niall Heffernan started wing back in an U20 All Ireland Final win over Cork in 2019. Achievements West Tipperary Senior Football Championship (7) 1980 (with Rockwell Rovers), 1986, 1988, 1995, 1996, 2024, 2026 West Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship (3) 1969, 1972, 2004 (with Éire Óg Annacarty) Tipperary Intermediate Football Championship (1) 1982 West Tipperary Intermediate Football Championship (6) 1977, 1982, 2016, 2019, 2022, 2025 Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship (2) 1995, 2025 West Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship (6) 1980, 1982, 1990, 1995, 2019, 2024 Tipperary Junior A Football Championship (2) 1979, 2015 West Tipperary Junior A Football Championship (6) 1940 (as Golden), 1961, 1975, 1976, 1979, 2015 Tipperary Junior B Football Championship (2) 2010, 2025 West Tipperary Junior B Football Championship (3) 1995, 2010, 2025 West Tipperary Junior A Hurling Championship (5) 1935 (as Golden), 1943 (as Golden), 1954, 1965, 1978 South Tipperary Junior A Hurling Championship (1) 1918 (as Golden) West Tipperary Junior B Hurling Championship (3) 2009, 2013, 2019 West Tipperary Junior C Hurling Championship (1) 2025 West Tipperary Under-21 A Football Championship (1) 1998 Tipperary Under-21 B Football Championship (2) 1995, 2007 West Tipperary Under-21 B Football Championship (7) 1993, 1995, 2001, 2007, 2011, 2016, 2023 Tipperary Under-21 A Hurling Championship (1) 1998 West Tipperary Under-21 A Hurling Championship (4) 1969 (with Galtee Rovers) as Suir Rovers), 1987, 1998, 2025 West Tipperary Under-21 B Hurling Championship (5) 1994, 2001, 2007, 2012, 2022 West Tipperary Under-19 A Football Championship (1) 2024 Tipperary Under-19 B Football Championship (1) 2025 West Tipperary Under-19 B Football Championship (1) 2025 Tipperary Minor A Football Championship (1) 2016 (with Galtee Rovers) West Tipperary Minor A Football Championship (10) 1952 (with Galtee Rovers), 1961 (with Galtee Rovers), 1962 (with Galtee Rovers), 1984, 1985, 1995, 1996, 2011, 2015 (with Galtee Rovers), 2016 (with Galtee Rovers) West Tipperary Minor B Football Championship (8) 1987, 1990, 1993, 1999, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2014 West Tipperary Minor A Hurling Championship (6) 1936 (as Golden), 1941 (with Kickhams as Invincibles), 1948, 1967, 1969, 1997 West Tipperary Minor B Hurling Championship (6) 1986, 1987, 1992, 2003, 2009, 2010 Tipperary Under-17 B Football Championship (1) 2021 West Tipperary Under-17 A Hurling Championship (1) 2022 West Tipperary Under-17 B Hurling Championship (1) 2024 Notable players John Leamy Josh Keane Bill O'Donnell Jack Leamy References External links Tipperary GAA site Archived 27 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine