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Fr. Sheehys GAA

gaelic games club in County Tipperary, 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 revisionJan 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ5477428 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fr. Sheehys GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association gaelic football and Hurling club located in Clogheen in South Tipperary in Ireland. The club is part of the South division of Tipperary GAA and represents the areas of Clogheen and Burncourt. In 1972 the club were renamed Fr. Sheehy's, combining Burncourt Football Club and Clogheen Hurling Club which were both formed in the 1930s. The club is named after Nicholas Sheehy who was a Parish priest in the Clogheen and Burncourt area at the time of his death in 1766.

Editorial summary

“Fr. Sheehys GAA” enters the record as gaelic games club in County Tipperary, Ireland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sheehys, gaelic and games can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1972, 1766—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sheehys, gaelic and games.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Fr. Sheehys GAA” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sheehys, gaelic and games provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5477428. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1972 and 1766.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Fr. Sheehys GAA”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Fr. Sheehys GAA primary sources, Fr. Sheehys GAA archive and Sheehys 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fr. Sheehys 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.