Armagh Club football & hurling

[illdecide]

You are lucky there are only 2 teams in Armagh...

Lurgan = Clan na Gael, Clann Eireann, St Pauls & St Peters. With Eire Og 1 mile from the Clans and Wolf Tones 2 miles from Clans

I know Armagh have clubs on the outskirts too but i wouldn't imagine they'd be as close as the Lurgan ones, maybe somone from Armagh could educate me on the other clubs on the outskirts of Armagh

[maddog]

You are lucky there are only 2 teams in Armagh...

Lurgan = Clan na Gael, Clann Eireann, St Pauls & St Peters. With Eire Og 1 mile from the Clans and Wolf Tones 2 miles from Clans

I know Armagh have clubs on the outskirts too but i wouldn't imagine they'd be as close as the Lurgan ones, maybe somone from Armagh could educate me on the other clubs on the outskirts of Armagh

Why so many clubs - is there a history to that ?
nearest would be the grange i suppose - 2 miles out the Moy road.

[lurganblue]

You are lucky there are only 2 teams in Armagh...

Lurgan = Clan na Gael, Clann Eireann, St Pauls & St Peters. With Eire Og 1 mile from the Clans and Wolf Tones 2 miles from Clans

I know Armagh have clubs on the outskirts too but i wouldn't imagine they'd be as close as the Lurgan ones, maybe somone from Armagh could educate me on the other clubs on the outskirts of Armagh

Why so many clubs - is there a history to that ?
nearest would be the grange i suppose - 2 miles out the Moy road.

yes. we do f**k all but argue and fight in lurgan... hence so many teams. couldnt agree on the colour of shite 

[armagh leg-end]

You are lucky there are only 2 teams in Armagh...

Lurgan = Clan na Gael, Clann Eireann, St Pauls & St Peters. With Eire Og 1 mile from the Clans and Wolf Tones 2 miles from Clans

I know Armagh have clubs on the outskirts too but i wouldn't imagine they'd be as close as the Lurgan ones, maybe somone from Armagh could educate me on the other clubs on the outskirts of Armagh

madden about two mile out the road. nab would be close enough as well!

[IVEDECIDED]

They are only in the vacinity its not as though the Harps and Ogs are competing with them for young players. Lurgan also has St. Marys on its doorstep, although they play in the Antrim league they compete in the North Armagh championship. (Pat McMahon cup) Clans, Clann Eireann, St. Peters, St.Pauls, Eire Og, Wolf Tonnes and Sarsfileds all have their own catchment are of sorts however they all compete frantically for players, facilities and fundraising opportunities! When one club comes up with a good fundraising plan all clubs support it however it usually means that they have to wait to do one themselves as the people of the town be sick of handing out to the Gaelic clubs!

[winsamsoon]

14,590 population of Armagh city (wikipedia) (Not sure how what percentage kick with the other foot) estimate half???


25,000 (wiki) Population of Lurgan and i would estimate about 13,000 would kick with the other wan) so it is a lot of teams for such a small population.

People make the mistake of thinking that Lurgan is a massive area but when the population is broken down it becomes relatively small in comparison with a lot of places. You can see how 6 or 7 teams in a small area could cause potential problems. All i have done is mentioned religious divisions but this isn't even taking into account the amount of people that are not involved in Gaelic plus the amount of soccer heads that are increasingly prevalent in Lurgan.

[illdecide]

Yeah man...but i'd imagine Armagh would be every bit as bad as Lurgan with regarding drinking and anti social behaviour

[thewanderer]

plenty of left footers in armagh too plus soccer, rugby ones etc. so the amount of Gaelic families get narrowed down. also the teams on the edge of the city tend to get players from both clubs ie madden, grange, tullysarron, ballymacnab and mullabrack. It therefor is not possible to facilitate a 3rd club.

[naka]

You are lucky there are only 2 teams in Armagh...

Lurgan = Clan na Gael, Clann Eireann, St Pauls & St Peters. With Eire Og 1 mile from the Clans and Wolf Tones 2 miles from Clans

I know Armagh have clubs on the outskirts too but i wouldn't imagine they'd be as close as the Lurgan ones, maybe somone from Armagh could educate me on the other clubs on the outskirts of Armagh

guys what about the camlough area--cruppen, shanes, belleeks and corrinshego all within a very small radius
when i was growing up there was only cruppen

[illdecide]

You are lucky there are only 2 teams in Armagh...

Lurgan = Clan na Gael, Clann Eireann, St Pauls & St Peters. With Eire Og 1 mile from the Clans and Wolf Tones 2 miles from Clans

I know Armagh have clubs on the outskirts too but i wouldn't imagine they'd be as close as the Lurgan ones, maybe somone from Armagh could educate me on the other clubs on the outskirts of Armagh

guys what about the camlough area--cruppen, shanes, belleeks and corrinshego all within a very small radius
when i was growing up there was only cruppen

aye Naka but that was a long time ago...the population has trebled since then

[fitzroyalty]

did shane o'neills form as a result of fallout in cruppen? i'd say all the lurgan clubs can trace their formation to a fall out of some sort 

[bennydorano]

You are lucky there are only 2 teams in Armagh...

Lurgan = Clan na Gael, Clann Eireann, St Pauls & St Peters. With Eire Og 1 mile from the Clans and Wolf Tones 2 miles from Clans

I know Armagh have clubs on the outskirts too but i wouldn't imagine they'd be as close as the Lurgan ones, maybe somone from Armagh could educate me on the other clubs on the outskirts of Armagh

guys what about the camlough area--cruppen, shanes, belleeks and corrinshego all within a very small radius
when i was growing up there was only cruppen

aye Naka but that was a long time ago...the population has trebled since then

How did yous end up with so many teams in an around Lurgan, no 'parish' rule??  Clans, Clann Eireann and St Peter's seem very close together for all 3 to thrive. 

Armagh had 3 teams about 20 odd years ago, Naomh Brid were a junior team, nominally from the windmill area.  Suppose there's also the hurlers at Cuchulianns.  Theres plenty of ex-Harps and Ogs lads playing for 'country' teams near Armagh.

[who-r-ya]

You are lucky there are only 2 teams in Armagh...

Lurgan = Clan na Gael, Clann Eireann, St Pauls & St Peters. With Eire Og 1 mile from the Clans and Wolf Tones 2 miles from Clans

I know Armagh have clubs on the outskirts too but i wouldn't imagine they'd be as close as the Lurgan ones, maybe somone from Armagh could educate me on the other clubs on the outskirts of Armagh

guys what about the camlough area--cruppen, shanes, belleeks and corrinshego all within a very small radius
when i was growing up there was only cruppen

aye Naka but that was a long time ago...the population has trebled since then

How did yous end up with so many teams in an around Lurgan, no 'parish' rule??  Clans, Clann Eireann and St Peter's seem very close together for all 3 to thrive. 

Armagh had 3 teams about 20 odd years ago, Naomh Brid were a junior team, nominally from the windmill area.  Suppose there's also the hurlers at Cuchulianns.  Theres plenty of ex-Harps and Ogs lads playing for 'country' teams near Armagh.

lik who benny

[illdecide]

Lurgan has two parishes...St Peters & St Pauls, Clann Eireann and St Peters are from St Peters parish with Clan na Gael & St Pauls from St Pauls parish...TBH i don't know what the parishes are for Eire Og, Wolfe Tones & Sarsfields

[bennydorano]

You are lucky there are only 2 teams in Armagh...

Lurgan = Clan na Gael, Clann Eireann, St Pauls & St Peters. With Eire Og 1 mile from the Clans and Wolf Tones 2 miles from Clans

I know Armagh have clubs on the outskirts too but i wouldn't imagine they'd be as close as the Lurgan ones, maybe somone from Armagh could educate me on the other clubs on the outskirts of Armagh

guys what about the camlough area--cruppen, shanes, belleeks and corrinshego all within a very small radius
when i was growing up there was only cruppen

aye Naka but that was a long time ago...the population has trebled since then

How did yous end up with so many teams in an around Lurgan, no 'parish' rule??  Clans, Clann Eireann and St Peter's seem very close together for all 3 to thrive. 

Armagh had 3 teams about 20 odd years ago, Naomh Brid were a junior team, nominally from the windmill area.  Suppose there's also the hurlers at Cuchulianns.  Theres plenty of ex-Harps and Ogs lads playing for 'country' teams near Armagh.

lik who benny

Of the top of my head - Abble, Butler, Sean Paul Henry, Kevin Smyth at Mullaghbrack, goalie Hughes to the Nab, we've recently had a few returnees that had gone to the Grange too. cant think to to many Ogs wans, Cullen? went to Grange, think they have a few at mullaghbrack/tullysaran too?