- Castlemitchell GAA
Infobox GAA club
club gaa = Castlemitchell
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irish = Caislean Mistéil
county = Kildare
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colours = Green and White
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founded = 1939
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|Castlemitchell is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in
County Kildare , Ireland who reached senior status in the 1950s and again in the 1990s from a small catchment area, and is home club of 1998 All Ireland finalist Christy Byrne.History
The area south of
Athy has had organized football since the foundation of the GAA. RIC records from 1890 show that Foxhill club had 50 members with officers listed as Lewis Higgins, Laurence Cullen and Thomas Malone. Joe Bermingham and Jim Connor founded Castlemitchell club in 1939. They purchased their own field in 1999.Current Chairman is Mick BrasilCurrent Senior Manager is Seamus McCleanGaelic Football
Castlemitchell played in a replayed Junior final in 1943. They were promoted in 1945, contested the intermediate final of 1952 and won the championship in 1953. They won a junior championship in 1983 and an intermediate championship in 1992. Christy Byrne featured on the 1998 Kildare All Ireland team.Castlemitchell Currently play in the intermediate championship in Kildare.Tagdh Fennin is a member of the current Kildare senior football panel, Managed by
Kieran McGeeney , and has also won a Leinster senior championshp medal when Kildare defeated Dublin in 2000 to lift the title,then managed by Mick O'Dwyer.Castlemitchell Relegated local rivals Rheban to Junior status football in 2007, in a fiercly contested match in Athy. Only a point separated the teams. Local Hero Kieran "Kiwi" Harris Described this day as a "Great day for the Parish".Honours
*Intermediate F champions 1953, 1992.
*Junior F champions 1983.
*Kildare Senior Football Championship semi-finalists 1959.
*SF League Div 2 champions 1975.Bibliography
* Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by
Eoghan Corry , CLG Chill Dara, 1984, ISBN 0-9509370-0-2 hb ISBN 0-9509370-1-0 pb
* Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
* Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.External links
* [http://kildare.gaa.ie/ Kildare GAA site]
* [http://www.clubgaa.ie/kildare/ Kildare GAA club sites]
* [http://www.hoganstand.com/Kildare/ Kildare on Hoganstand.com]
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