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Rk County......... Name.................................. Len x Wid Tot 01 Tipperary..... Semple Stadium................. 145 x 90 13,050 01 Galway......... Pearse Stadium................. 145 x 90 13,050 01 Antrim.......... Casement Park.................. 145 x 90 13,050 01 Roscommon.. Dr Hyde Park..................... 145 x 90 13,050 01 Clare............ Cusack Park....................... 145 x 90 13,050 01 Offaly............ O'Connor Park................... 145 x 90 13,050 01 Donegal........ McCumhaill Park................ 145 x 90 13,050 08 Sligo............. Markievicz Park.................. 142 x 90 12,780 09 Kilkenny........ Nowlan Park...................... 145 x 88 12,760 09 Cork.............. Pairc Ui Rinn...................... 145 x 88 12,760 11 Dublin........... Croke Park........................ 145 x 88 12,716 12 Cork.............. Pairc Ui Chaoimh............... 144 x 88 12,672 13 Carlow.......... Dr Cullen Park................... 145 x 87 12,615 14 Armagh......... Athletic Grounds................ 143 x 88 12,584 15 Wicklow......... O'Byrne Park.................... 145 x 86 12,470 16 Mionaghan.... St Tiernach's Park............. 142 x 87 12,354 17 Wexford........ Wexford Park.................... 142 x 87 12,311 18 Leitrim.......... Pairc Sean Mac Diarmada.. 142 x 87 12,300 19 Laois............ O'Moore Park..................... 142 x 86 12,212 19 Tyrone.......... Healy Park......................... 142 x 86 12,212 21 Cavan.......... Breffni Park........................ 143 x 86 12,184 22 Longford....... Pearse Park...................... 138 x 88 12,144 23 Fermanagh.. Brewster Park.................... 145 x 83 12,035 24 Kerry............ Fitzgerald Stadium............. 144 x 82 11,808 25 Meath.......... Pairc Tailteann.................... 135 x 87 11,745 26 Derry........... Celtic Park ..........................138 x 84 11,614 27 Dublin.......... Parnell Park....................... 141 x 82 11,562 28 Westmeath.. Cusack Park...................... 140x 82 11,514 29 Louth........... Drogheda Park................... 138 x 83 11,437 30 Waterford..... Walsh Park........................ 142 x 80 11,360 31 Limerick....... Gaelic Grounds................... 137 x 82 11,234 31 Mayo........... McHale Park....................... 137 x 82 11,234 33 Down.......... Pairc Esler.......................... 138 x 81 11,120 34 Kildare......... St Conleths Park................ 135 x 80 10,706 Cully (Laois) - Posts: 375 - 03/09/2010 09:04:12 764055 Link
i know that newbridge pitch is tiny madden (Kildare) - Posts: 293 - 03/09/2010 11:08:04 764140 Link
Are county grounds meant to be bigger than club grounds? Hanley2 (Longford) - Posts: 420 - 03/09/2010 12:52:47 764283 Link
Its not that much of a difference,pitches just look bigger if they have bigger stands and complexes dubinlaois (Dublin) - Posts: 304 - 04/09/2010 19:14:00 765195 Link
Played in the athletic grounds in armagh not a hope in hell of it being bigger than clones.. either is ballybofey... i would love to know were the measurements came from as i believe a lot them are false shaggylegend (Monaghan) - Posts: 1947 - 04/09/2010 20:51:08 765281 Link
Thread bump for those who fear " the wide open spaces " of Croke Park. It's more of a pre-emptive excuse than a reality...... Boxtyeater (Leitrim) - Posts: 733 - 24/03/2019 19:57:11 2174909 Link
The Gaelic Grounds measurements are totally wrong. It's the same length as Croke Park but narrower. Half those measurements are wrong for the football counties aswell bloodyban (Limerick) - Posts: 1710 - 24/03/2019 21:00:01 2174967 Link
Antrim Casement Park 145.0 90.0 13,050 That's a fair lift of silage! Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 24/03/2019 21:13:50 2174979 Link
Today's Indo: "Tipperary great Nicky English believes the Parnell Park pitch is too small to host senior inter-county hurling matches." Article says Parnell Park is 141m by 82m while Croke Park is 145m by 88m. It will come as a shock to Nicky to learn that Thurles is a mere 80m wide (per Tipp GAA) and is therefore also too small to host senior inter-county hurling matches. Looks like Tipp will have to forfeit home advantage in Munster Championship!! Aibrean (Kerry) - Posts: 331 - 26/04/2019 17:48:27 2180458 Link
Replying To Aibrean: "Today's Indo: "Tipperary great Nicky English believes the Parnell Park pitch is too small to host senior inter-county hurling matches." Article says Parnell Park is 141m by 82m while Croke Park is 145m by 88m. It will come as a shock to Nicky to learn that Thurles is a mere 80m wide (per Tipp GAA) and is therefore also too small to host senior inter-county hurling matches. Looks like Tipp will have to forfeit home advantage in Munster Championship!!" Really? I think you could get a different measurement for Semple on every website that purports to give statistics for it. But if you've actually gone to matches, you'd see that Thurles is one of the larger pitches. Also, in the same article, Nicky admits he doesn't know the exact dimensions: 'I don't know the measurements, but certainly it feels tight in the corners.'. To be fair, you could say the same for a few pitches, incl the likes of Nowlan Park. I guess its up to teams to adapt the the home sod of the team they're drawn against. But outside of Croke Park, I'd imagine Semple is one of the largest pitches out there Marlon_JD (Tipperary) - Posts: 1823 - 26/04/2019 21:07:44 2180483 Link
Replying To Aibrean: "Today's Indo: "Tipperary great Nicky English believes the Parnell Park pitch is too small to host senior inter-county hurling matches." Article says Parnell Park is 141m by 82m while Croke Park is 145m by 88m. It will come as a shock to Nicky to learn that Thurles is a mere 80m wide (per Tipp GAA) and is therefore also too small to host senior inter-county hurling matches. Looks like Tipp will have to forfeit home advantage in Munster Championship!!" We play in Croke Park......no we should be playing in Parnell. We.play on Parnell and not we should be playing in Croke Park. Does this not confirm the 31 v 1 mentality of GAA? Maybe we should move all matches to O'Toole Park???? witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 26/04/2019 22:21:11 2180493 Link
Tipperary GAA's own website (https://tipperary.gaa.ie/tipperary-gaa/semple-stadium/) states: "The Dimensions of Semple Stadium Pitch are 145 metres X 80 Metres". I think Tipperary GAA is a reasonably authoritative source in this matter; they would hardly downgrade their own pitch. Accordingly, "The wide open spaces of Thurles" is just a myth. Sure, Maurice Fitzgerald's sideline kick was easy enough after all.......... "The wide open spaces of Fitzgerald Stadium" is another myth: it's a mere 81 or 82m wide. Strangely, there are few wide pitches. Some of the widest are Pairc Uí Rinn, Croke Park and Austin Stack Park. And don't say meaningless things like 'you can see' or it 'feels tight in the corners.' Harder evidence is needed. At a minimum pace the pitch. Aibrean (Kerry) - Posts: 331 - 27/04/2019 11:49:27 2180528 Link
Replying To Marlon_JD: "Really? I think you could get a different measurement for Semple on every website that purports to give statistics for it. But if you've actually gone to matches, you'd see that Thurles is one of the larger pitches. Also, in the same article, Nicky admits he doesn't know the exact dimensions: 'I don't know the measurements, but certainly it feels tight in the corners.'. To be fair, you could say the same for a few pitches, incl the likes of Nowlan Park. I guess its up to teams to adapt the the home sod of the team they're drawn against. But outside of Croke Park, I'd imagine Semple is one of the largest pitches out there" to be fair Nowlan Park is 145 by 88,not a bit tight in the corners and at the moment the pitch is as god as any in the country, mooncat (Kilkenny) - Posts: 538 - 27/04/2019 16:01:30 2180547 Link
Loads of these 'official' measurements are wrong. They need to be done again. Cusack Park Ennis is supposed to be huge according to official figures. It's not. Theres the pitch having the stands ontop of it rubbish constantly being mentioned. The fact is that it's a wide pitch but very short. You've guys gently picking the ball over from the oppositions half. I'd say it's in fact one of the shortest in Munster. Limerick is narrow but it's long...yet official figures again are not sure how long it is.. Theres Gaelic Football pitches around that you could play soccer on they are so small bloodyban (Limerick) - Posts: 1710 - 28/04/2019 09:37:19 2180623 Link
Go on to Google earth, use the ruler function to measure distance, you will soon find any pitch dimension you want. I created an overlay, 145 x 90, which can be placed over any pitch in the country that is visible, to see how it measures up. m_the_d (None) - Posts: 1099 - 28/04/2019 11:35:08 2180637 Link
Replying To m_the_d: "Go on to Google earth, use the ruler function to measure distance, you will soon find any pitch dimension you want. I created an overlay, 145 x 90, which can be placed over any pitch in the country that is visible, to see how it measures up." Cully's measurements are not correct as some of the pitches are much bigger. Go to EPA maps.ie and you will get an accurate measurement tool, or see below 'https://gis.epa.ie/EPAMaps/' The site seems at present to be difficult to access which is not normal browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2342 - 28/04/2019 11:54:11 2180639 Link
Replying To witnof: "We play in Croke Park......no we should be playing in Parnell. We.play on Parnell and not we should be playing in Croke Park. Does this not confirm the 31 v 1 mentality of GAA? Maybe we should move all matches to O'Toole Park????" I agree maybe if the GAA let Dublin build a proper stadium as we have asked repeatedly for. But no it suits them to always moan about Dublin. For the record Parnell park is too small for intercounty hurling the sideline run off is too close to walled surround. We really should build our own stadium and keep as much of our earnings as possible. arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4953 - 28/04/2019 12:42:05 2180642 Link
Yes, Cullys figures are way off. Could browncoys or m_the_d (None) please use their expertise to check the width of Semple Stadium and any other pitch they have time to do. Please. Aibrean (Kerry) - Posts: 331 - 28/04/2019 14:38:05 2180653 Link
From a quick look, from all the pitches marked as full size, only Tullamore appears to be so. The width can be whatever the groundsmen decide, space allowing, but post to post doesn't lie! m_the_d (None) - Posts: 1099 - 28/04/2019 16:45:57 2180677 Link
This is my top ten, having measured visible pitches on Google Earth. 1. O'Connor Park 1. Austin Stack Park 3. Healy Park 4. Markievicz Park 5. Pairc Ui Cuiv 6. Dr Hyde Park 7. Pairc Ui Rinn 8. Pairc Tailteann 9. Croke Park 10. Casement Park m_the_d (None) - Posts: 1099 - 29/04/2019 16:36:31 2180865 Link