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Wicklow county hurling team

hurling team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ104844680 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Wicklow county hurling team represents Wicklow in hurling and is governed by Wicklow GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the Christy Ring Cup and the National Hurling League.

Wicklow's home ground is Echelon Park, Aughrim. The team's manager is Jonathan O'Neill.

The team has never won the Leinster Senior Championship, the All-Ireland Senior Championship or the National League.

History

Wicklow won the All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship in 1967 and 1971.

Wicklow won the Kehoe Cup on seven occasions: in 1989, 1991, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.

Panel

INJ Player has had an injury which has affected recent involvement with the county team.

RET Player has since retired from the county team.

WD Player has since withdrawn from the county team due to a non-injury issue.

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The public source identifies “Wicklow county hurling team” as hurling team. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wicklow, county and hurling.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 1971, 1989, 1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wicklow, county and hurling providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q104844680. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1967, 1971, 1989 and 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wicklow county hurling team” 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.