# Kilbrittain GAA

Kilbrittain GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the parish of Kilbrittain, County Cork, Ireland. The club fields teams in Gaelic football and Hurling, but is primarily known for hurling. The club participates in Cork GAA competitions. The club is a member of Carbery division of Cork GAA.

## History

Kilbrittain GAA club was founded in 1904. It has been primarily a hurling club throughout its history, though it did play in the Cork Junior Football Championship final in 1926. Hurling has always been the first sport in the parish. From the beginning, especially in the 1920s, the club had some successes in the South-West division, winning 6 titles in a row and again in 1930, 1938, 1940, 1941 and 1942. In 1978, after a lapse of 36 years, the club won the Flyer Nyhan Cup or the South-West Junior Hurling Championship. The club were beaten by Kinsale in the subsequent Cork Junior Hurling Championship.
In 1984, Kilbrittain reached the final of the Cork Junior Hurling Championship only to be defeated by Midleton. The following year, 1985, Kilbrittain defeated Cobh in the final to win its first county title in 81 years.
In 1994, the Carbery divisional team won the Cork Senior Hurling Championship title with a number of Kilbrittain players on the team, 5 playing on the team with 2 subs.
After competing 10 years in the Intermediate grade and being runners up in 3 county finals (1988, 1989, 1993) Kilbrittain won the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship in 1995. In 1996, Kilbrittain became a senior hurling club. In 2010 Kilbrittain won the Cork County intermediate A hurling championship.

## Achievements

* Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship Winners (1) 1995 Runners-Up 1988, 1989, 1993
* Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship Winners (1) 2010
* Cork Lower Intermediate Hurling championship Runners-Up 2021
* Cork Junior Hurling Championship Winners (1) 1985 Runners-Up 1927, 1984
* Cork Junior Football Championship Runners-Up 1926
* Cork Junior B Football Championship Winners (2) 1992, 2009
* Cork Junior B Inter-Divisional Football Championship Winners 2016
* Cork Minor A Hurling Championship Winners (1) 1992 (As Seaside Rovers)
* Cork Minor C Football Championship Winners (1) 2008
* South West Junior A Hurling Championship Winners (12) 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1978, 1984, 1985 Runners-Up 1929, 1931, 1933, 1939, 1957, 1959, 1965, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982, 2005
* South West Junior A Football Championship (1): 1926 Runners-Up 1993, 2017
* South West Junior B Hurling Championship Winners (4) 1946, 1951, 1958, 1967, 2021
* South West Junior B Football Championship Winners (2) 1970, 1992, 2009, 2016 Runners-Up 1969, 1991, 2008,
* South West Junior C Hurling Championship Winners (2) 1983, 1993, 2010 Runners-Up 1984, 2002, 2003, 2004
* South West Junior D Football Championship Winners (4) 1982, 1984, 1987, 2003 Runners-Up 1986, 1988
* West Cork Minor A Hurling Championship Winners (5) 1981, 1982, 1992 (As Seaside Rovers), 2002, 2006 Runners-Up 1960, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2016, 2020
* West Cork Minor B Hurling Championship Winners (1) 1981 (As Seaside Rovers)
* West Cork Minor B Football Championship Winners (1) 1993 (As Seaside Rovers) 2017 Runners-Up 1998, 2004,
* West Cork Minor C Football Championship Winners (1) 2008
* West Cork Under-21 A Hurling Championship Winners (8) 1979, 1983, 1984, 1986, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2011 Runners-Up 1975, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2011
* West Cork Under 21 B Hurling Championship Winners (1) 2021
* West Cork Under-21 B Football Championship Winners (1) 2011 Runners-Up 1986, 2002
* West Cork Under-21 C Football Championship Winners (1) 2014

## Notable players

* Owen Sexton, Cork Minor Football All-Ireland winner 1993, Cork U21 and senior footballer from 1996 to 2006. Captained Cork in 2005. County Senior Football winner with Carbery in 2004. Captain of Kilbrittain Junior B Football County winners in 2009, Intermediate hurling county winner in 2010.
* Dan O'Connell
* Jamie Wall