Shannonbridge GAA
GAA club in County Offaly
Shannonbridge GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Shannonbridge, County Offaly, Ireland. The club is primarily concerned with the game of Gaelic football.
History
Located in the village of Shannonbridge, on the Offaly-Galway-Roscommon border, Shannonbridge GAA Club was founded in 1973. An earlier club, named St Kieran's, had existed in the area but became defunct in the 1940s. Shannonbridge spent most of its early existence operating in the junior grade and won the Offaly JAFC title in 1989. Two years later, the club claimed the Offaly IFC title to secure top flight status for the first time. After losing to Ferbane in 1994, Shannonbridge claimed the Offaly SFC in 1996 after a 1–11 to 0–12 defeat of Tullamore.
“Shannonbridge GAA” enters the record as gAA club in County Offaly. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Shannonbridge, club and County can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Shannonbridge GAA” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Shannonbridge, club and County provides the most credible route into that argument.
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 Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q131375047. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1973, 1989, 1994 and 1996.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Shannonbridge 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.