Monasterevin G.F.C.
gaelic games club in County Kildare, Ireland
Monasterevan G.F.C. is a Gaelic football club based in Monasterevin, County Kildare, Ireland. The club competes in the County Kildare GAA board league and cup system. They were Kildare "club of the year" in 1977. In 2012, Monasterevan G.F.C. won their first Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship, beating Raheens in the county final on a scoreline of 1-10 to 0-07 and O’Connells of Louth 0-04 to 0-03 in the Leinster.
Monasterevan were the first club in Ireland to win a football and hurling double, defeating Clane by 1-3 to 1-2, in the 1890 Kildare football final, and defeating Moorefield in the Kildare hurling final the same year.
Rosglas
Rosglas (Irish for Rosegreen, sometimes written as "Ros Glas") GAA club was founded in 1974 as a juvenile club. It currently serves as a hurling club. It has won five minor championship and league titles and won county championships at under-12, under-14 and under-16 level.
Honours
Kildare Senior Football Championship: (3) 1890, 1911, 1977 Runners-up: 1907, 1910, 1912, 1973, 1976
Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship: 2012
Kildare Intermediate Football Championship: (4) 1959, 1971, 2012, 2019
Kildare Junior Football Championship: (4) 1906, 1910, 1935, 1954 Runners-up: 1930, 1945
Kildare Senior B Football Championship: Runners-up: 1992
Kildare Reserve "B" Football Championship: (1) 2013
Kildare Junior C Football Championship: (1) 1998
Kildare Under-21 B Football Shield Winners (2) 2011, 2013
Kildare Minor Football Championship: (1) 1928 Runners-up: 1992
Leinster Leader Cup: (2) 1973, 1974 Runners-up: 1975
Kildare Junior Football League: (2) 1945, 1954 Runners-up: 1933, 1948;
Kildare Junior Football League (Div 2): (2) 1993, 1995 Runners-up: 1973, 1996
Kildare Junior Football League (Div 3B): (1) 1998
Kildare Junior Football League (Div 4 South): (1) 2013
Kildare Minor Football League (Div l): Runners-up: 1993
Kildare Minor Football League (Div 2): (1) 1992
Kildare Minor Football League (Div 3): (3) 1990, 2011, 2013 Runners-up: 2010
Kildare Minor Football League (Div 4): (1) 2008
Keogh Cup: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2023
Kildare Under 21 Champions: 2016
Notable players
Hugh Hyland
Bibliography
Monasterevan GAA: Scéal An Blían 1974. Monasterevan.
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