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Eastern Gaels GAA

gaelic games club in County Mayo, Ireland

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ24185068 ↗
Source-derived summary

Eastern Gaels GAA (Irish: CLG Gaeil an Oirthir) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in Brickens, County Mayo, Ireland. The club was founded in 1984 in the parish of Bekan drawing its members from Bekan, Brickens to its south, and Logboy to its southeast.

The club is a member of the East Division of Mayo GAA and currently competes in the Mayo Junior A Championship. At underage level, the Eastern Gaels won a Mayo Minor B title in 1993.

The club colours are royal blue with a gold band.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Eastern Gaels GAA” as gaelic games club in County Mayo, Ireland. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984. The account is most persuasive where Eastern, Gaels and gaelic can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as gaelic games club in County Mayo, Ireland. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q24185068. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984 and 1993.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Eastern Gaels GAA”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Eastern Gaels GAA primary sources, Eastern Gaels GAA archive and Eastern research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Eastern Gaels GAA”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Eastern Gaels GAA” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.