- Dicksboro GAA
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Dicksboro Founded: 1909 County: Kilkenny Nickname: The 'Boro Club colours: Maroon and White Grounds: Palmerstown Coordinates: 52°39′32.78″N 7°16′19.08″W / 52.6591056°N 7.2719667°WCoordinates: 52°39′32.78″N 7°16′19.08″W / 52.6591056°N 7.2719667°W Playing kits 
Standard coloursSenior Club Championships All Ireland Leinster
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championsFootball : - - 2 Hurling : - - 4 Dicksboro is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in Kilkenny, Ireland.
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History
Dicksboro GAA Club, founded in 1909, takes its name from a townsland about one mile west of the city on the Ballycallan road. According to Paddy O' Donoghue, a founder member of the club, lads and lassies from the Walkin Street known as the Kilns used to travel out to Dicksboro on Sunday evenings for a dance with young people from the Ballycallan / Kilmanagh area. While waiting for the dance to begin, a game of hurling would be played. After a number of months, somebody suggested forming and affiliating a hurling club consisting of regular attenders at the informal gatherings. This was enthusiastically received and at a meeting arranged in Lennons, the only house in the townsland, the new hurling club was formed. The decision was taken to name the club after the area and the Dicksboro Club was born.
Dicksboro entered a team in the junior championship of 1910. This they duly won and the following year the club entered the senior championship where it was to remain until 1960, winning three senior titles- 1923, 1926 and 1950 - during that period. In 1961, Dicksboro failed to field or enter a team and this remained the case until 1969 when the club was reformed and a minor team was entered. The following year a junior team took the field and from that date the club has blossomed into what it is today.
In 1980, 150 members attended a meeting in the Metropole Hotel at which the decision was taken to acquire club grounds and premises. A development committee was set up and following several years of intense fund-raising Dicksboro officially opened its new premises in Palmerstown in June 1990.
Hurling
Honours
- All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championships:
- 1939,1947
- Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championships:
- 1939,1940,1945,1946,1947
- Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championships: 4
- 1923, 1926, 1950, 1993
- Kilkenny Under-21 Hurling Championships:
- 1986,1991,1992,2008,2009
- Kilkenny Minor Hurling Championships:
- 1951,1952,1953,1969,1973,1990, 2006,2009,2010
- Leinster Intermediate Club Hurling Championships: 2
- 2005, 2010
- All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championships:1
- 2006
Famous Hurlers
Player Era Club titles All-Ireland Leinster County Matty Power 1920s-1930s 1922, 1928*, 1929*, 1933, 1935 1922, 1923, 1927*, 1928*, 1930*, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936 Paddy Grace 1930s-1950s 1939, 1947 1939, 1940, 1945, 1946, 1947 Dan Kennedy 1930s-1950s 1947 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950 1950, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956 Michael Walsh 1980s-1990s 1986, 1993 1991, 1992, 1993 1993 Christy Walsh 1990s *After moving to Dublin Power played for the Dublin senior hurling team.
Football
Honours
- Kilkenny Senior Football Championships:
- 1997, 1994,
See also
- Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
- Kilkenny Senior Football Championship
- Leinster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship
Further reading
- O’Neill, Gerry (2009), Up the ’Boro – Dicksboro GAA Club 1909-2009
External links
- "Dicksboro GAA Club", gaa.ie, http://dicksboro.kilkenny.gaa.ie/
- "Dicksboro", kilkennycats.com, http://www.kilkennycats.com/clubs/cgi-bin/cginews.pl?record=31
- "Dicksboro", gaainfo.com, http://www.gaainfo.com/club.php?co=kilkenny&club=dicksboro
Kilkenny GAA Clubs Gaelic Athletic Association Clubs in KilkennySenior Hurling Clubs Ballyhale Shamrocks • Carrickshock • Clara • Dunnamaggin • Erins Own • Fenians • Graigue Ballycallan • James Stephens • O'Loughlin Gaels • St. Lachtains • St. Martin's • TullaroanIntermediate Hurling Clubs Black's & White's • Conahy Shamrocks • Danesfort • Dicksboro • Emeralds • Glenmore • Graignamanagh • Mooncoin • Mullinavat • Rower-Inistioge • Young Irelands • Tullogher RosberconJunior Hurling Clubs Barrow Rangers • Bennettsbridge • Clara • Cloneen • Dicksboro • Dunnamaggin • Erin's Own • Galmoy • James Stephens • John Lockes • Kilmacow • Lisdowney • Mooncoin • O'Loughlin Gaels • Piltown • St. Lachtains • St. Martin's • St. Patrick's • Slieverue • Thomastown • WindgapSenior Football Clubs Carrickshock • Dicksboro • Dunnamaggin • Erins Own • Glenmore • James Stephens • Mooncoin • Muckalee • Mullinavat • O'Loughlin Gaels • RailyardIntermediate Football Clubs Blacks and Whites • Conahy Shamrocks • Danesfort • Graignamanagh • Kilmaganny • Piltown • Rower-Inistioge • ThomastownCategories:- 1909 in Gaelic games
- Sports clubs established in 1909
- Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in County Kilkenny
- Hurling clubs in County Kilkenny
- Gaelic football clubs in County Kilkenny
- Leinster GAA club stubs
- All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championships:
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