Club catchment areas

[Riseagain]

Person has made an interactive map of club catchment areas in every county here is the link.

Club Catchment areas map

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[RedHand88]

Person has made an interactive map of club catchment areas in every county here is the link.

Club Catchment areas map

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My own club doesn't even feature so not very lol.
Has been taken over by the neighbours.

[marty34]

That's an interesting map.

Great work by whoever put that together.

I especially like the areas in north Antrim called ' Open Areas'.

[Joeythelips]

Well done whoever put it together, it would be interesting to see it against population estimates for those areas so county boards can see what areas are not doing as well as can be.

For example looking at that map, my own club Kilcavan has a similar catchment area size compared to Mountmellick and with both competing at Intermediate grade this year that would make sense. But if you look at population of those areas you would see Kilcavan punching above their weight and Mountmellick well below theirs considering the town of Mountmellick has a population of around 5,000 souls.

There might be even a GAA scheme to reward clubs which are well run based off of this and incentivise clubs to get their house in order.

[Blueforever]

Trumera carchmemt area is way bigger than that

[Verbal]

What's the Gaza Strip area between Camross, Castletown & Mountrath?

[finnfromballyfin]

Going as far as saying Clonad-Park/Ratheniska Shared is kinda criminal imo. Like you'll have areas that overlap around the middle. But like the very west of that catchment is NOT Park/Rath area, same goes with areas there. Like you won't ever get a Clonad hurler from Dysart (Park townland).
I know you'll have a few Clonad players going and kicking with Park but it's just not that popular to have the areas considered shared. Most clonad lads play their football out in The Heath and maybe the odd few going out to Ballyroan or Ratheniska.

Ballyfin going into Portlaoise is also a no. Ballyfin have enough area instead going stealing around Portlaoise the greedy bastards 🤣🤣🤣. I know Boughlone Way out by Centra Mountrath Road is considered a Ballyfin area once you go 750m into it. But ballyfin apparently has the whole area. Including Bellingham estate and a Portlaoise kilometer west.

Colt area touching Portlaoise area is also incorrect. Surely a good bit of that area south of Portlaoise Rugby Club is Clonad not Colt. Colt can have that area once they go south of the Clonad GAA backroad.

Mountmellick and The Rock shouldn't but also should be shared, they have different areas geographically but they also have a LOT of area overlapping, but not entirely. Scrub area is 100% Rock and like Acragar and Derryguile is 100% Mountmellick. But you can't do much
about that one since most of The Rock's stock comes from Mountmellick's actual area.

[Verbal]

That's a hell of a lot of scores settled in one post!!

[bringbackdregish]

Person has made an interactive map of club catchment areas in every county here is the link.

Club Catchment areas map

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My own club doesn't even feature so not very lol.
Has been taken over by the neighbours.

Must be a rock man are you.

Good to see Dregish featuring and the good healthy derby of Owen Roes and Stewartstown

[SCFC]

Portarlington's area is overstated and O'Dempseys area is understated.
Also think Courtwood looks a bit big on the map?
Killeen and Kilcruise is obviously a minefield but I think there might be some seperate areas.

[the sash]

I'm a Portarlington man and your 100% right, you could take portarlington and half that land mass. Anyone that lives 200 metres from Jamestown construction once Butlers steel on the lea rd/ Dublin rd out of Portarlington plays for o'dempseys and would always been considered so.

[Ballybrittas Boy]

Yeah, the map is way off in terms of O'Dempseys area. It comes right in to the edge of town on all sides! Port wouldn't have too many players from outside the built up part of the town.

[Jd]

I was talking to a port lad who would know their area to the inch . He reckons that there is no real border that near to port at all and that the people on the likes of corrig or Lea road could play with either club. A lot of parishes are like that . There is a demographics report done by Adrianne McCarthy (I'm almost sure that's her name forgive me if I'm wrong) on behalf of laois co board and it makes very interesting reading particularly for rural clubs about their playing populations over the next number of years. Digging into schools numbers overall population etc