preddan (Kildare) - Posts: 739 - 21/05/2018 19:39:23    2102781

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 21/05/2018 20:20:43    2102796

Past hurler (None) - Posts: 736 - 21/05/2018 20:21:06    2102797

Id say there's parts of galway too are are pure hurling only. places like derrybrien, Abbey,duniry,ballinakill,tommy larkins that area stretching down the slieve aughty mountains and into the slieve bearnagh mountains of east clare where id say is more or less pure hurling too, woodford to scariff, whitegate,killenena and feakle..maybe they have football clubs I could be wrong

preddan (Kildare) - Posts: 739 - 21/05/2018 20:24:13    2102798

Glenealy in Wicklow, last year's Leinster Intermediate Club Finalists are a sole hurling club. They do share a parish with Ashford who are a Football Club. There is a certain level of crossover between players but less and less over the years. Glenealy's neighbours are Rathnew. 7 of the Rathnew panel which dished out St Vincents first Leinster Club Championship defeat since 1982 are members of Glenealy Hurling Club.

Wicklowman (Wicklow) - Posts: 1139 - 22/05/2018 05:01:52    2102868

The Hurling only parishes seem to be in Glens of Antrim, North Kerry, South Galway, East Clare, Ards in Down, Oulart the Ballagh, Small parts of Meath & Westmeath.

I'd imagine at this stage all of the Dublin clubs have both Hurling and football as a dual?

Waterford?
Cork?

Past hurler (None) - Posts: 736 - 22/05/2018 08:11:42    2102873

Faugh's, Fág an Bealach, Dublin.

baire (Galway) - Posts: 1818 - 22/05/2018 08:47:12    2102879

perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 22/05/2018 09:05:27    2102884

Offaly is like most counties with parishes where football is the only sport, predominantly in North Offaly.
Hurling only parishes like Coolderry, Clareen, Shinrone and Ballyskenach, are in South Offaly mostly bordering Tipperary. Kinnitty did have a football team a few years ago, Lusmagh entered the 2017 and 2018 JFC, but hurling is the dominant game. Drumcullen play hurling only, and have a strong camogie team.
Kilcormac/Killoughey had a useful football team a few years ago, then stuck to the small ball, but have entered an IFCfootball team this year. Areas around Tullamore play both codes. Brosna Gaels are an amalgamation of football clubs from Tubber to Doon.

thelongridge (Offaly) - Posts: 1746 - 22/05/2018 11:19:05    2102956

TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 22/05/2018 11:42:20    2102967

liam500 (Wicklow) - Posts: 175 - 22/05/2018 21:08:02    2103118

Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2131 - 22/05/2018 21:32:39    2103124

you can basically draw a circle about 20 miles radius right down the meath/west meath border where hurling is the number one sport in 90% of the parishes. west from trim as far as mullingar and from kinegad in south to kells/castlepollard in north of this area. big enough region

dickie10 (UK) - Posts: 693 - 22/05/2018 22:08:09    2103139

Four Roads , Athleague and Tremane are hurling only clubs in Roscommon. Some lads from those areas would play football with St Aidans and Fuerty/St Ciarans but hurling the dominant sport in these parts.

facethepuckout (Roscommon) - Posts: 214 - 22/05/2018 22:41:47    2103148

dubshurling7 (Dublin) - Posts: 1017 - 22/05/2018 23:15:48    2103155

It's funny between the different tiers in Hurling you can start to see a similar trend between counties in each tier.

In Lory Meagher cup each county would only have 2/3 clubs to pick from but in football areas.

In Nicky Rackard cup that might increase to 4/5 clubs to pick from in football dominated areas.
In Christy Ring Cup you might have 1 or 2 Hurling only Parishes and then 6/7 other Hurling clubs in football dominated areas.

Going up to Joe McDonagh Cup you would have Hurling strongholds like Glens of Antrim, North Kerry, Laois, Meath/Westmeath border and Carlow/Kilkenny border. These are still football dominated counties though. But a high level of Hurling in their strongholds keeps these teams a tier above Christy Ring teams consistently.

Obviously then the Liam McCarthy teams are all Hurling first counties.

Past hurler (None) - Posts: 736 - 23/05/2018 00:01:48    2103163

blackspot91 (Limerick) - Posts: 1055 - 23/05/2018 07:52:30    2103176

One can only be impressed with the GAA outpost of the Ards, as someone who has been up there a few times recently, it's unreal how far it is from Newry or Belfast.
From newry it could take you 2 hours by car if you didn't take the ferry. If you took the ferry and where late, there was a queue or missed it, this would add to the journey time.
When you talk to Portaferry people they talk about ferry times, there whole way of thinking and approach is adjusted to the times of the ferry. Ballycran and Ballgalget don't really take the ferry and will head to Newtownards and then down the coast road.
The Ards peninsula has to be the most remote hurling outposts. Added that they are located near some very loyalist communities then we can truly appreciate what an outpost they have.
Although they did babble with football for a few yrs in Ballycran with Greg Blaney winning an all Ireland with the club, I would safely say the only football like object in the Ards now is a buoy in Strangford Lough.

cuchulainn35 (Armagh) - Posts: 1676 - 23/05/2018 09:41:32    2103196

One can only be impressed with the GAA outpost of the Ards, as someone who has been up there a few times recently, it's unreal how far it is from Newry or Belfast.

Its further from North Antrim to Belfast and Newry ;-)

Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 23/05/2018 12:06:11    2103234

bumpernut (Antrim) - Posts: 1852 - 23/05/2018 12:40:15    2103252