• Source: Killarney Legion GAA

Killarney Legion are a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland. The club was founded on a March evening in 1929 when a group of eleven men held a meeting in the then Temperance Hall in High Street, Killarney.




History


In the Kerry Senior Football Championship, Legion reached the 3rd round by beating John Mitchels of Tralee 0-16 to 1-6, then losing to rivals Dr. Crokes 1-16 to 0-9. Legion now have a new state of the art clubhouse and have just commenced the development of a stand aligning the southern side of the main pitch. The stature of the juvenile section of the club is at an all-time high at present. Legion's U14 team represented Kerry in the Feile competition of 2006 held in Wicklow and again in 2009 held in Kildare. Also the minor teams (U18) have reached three county finals in a row since 2007, winning two. The club won the Under 21 Club Championship in 2011 and 2012. Legion's senior team was relegated to Division 2 for the 2014 season, but won that straight away. Killarney Legion GAA came so close to winning the County Championship 2015 after beating Mid Kerry, Feale Rangers, Kerins O' Rahillys and Rathmore. Legion met South Kerry in the County Final but lost in extra time of a replay.

As of October 2020, the club acquired a new floodlighting system, and upgraded the gym.




Notable players


Notable players include:

Brian Kelly - Kerry GAA goalkeeper
Jonathan Lyne - Kerry GAA wing-back
James O'Donoghue - Kerry GAA Senior Centre forward
All-Ireland medal winners from the Legion include:




= All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

=
Ml. Coffey 1926
D. O'Connor 1929-32
Timmy O'Leary 1937-39
Ml. Lyne 1937-41
Jackie Lyne 1946-53
Denny Lyne 1946
Donie Murphy 1953
Mixie Palmer 1953-55
Gerald O'Sullivan 1953-55
J. J. Sheehan 1953-55
Johnny Culloty 1955-59-62-69(c)-70
Diarmuid O'Donoghue 1980-84
Peter O'Leary 1997, 2000
John Cronin 2004
Brian Kelly 2014
Jonathan Lyne 2014
James O'Donoghue 2014




= All-Ireland Junior Football Championship

=
Ml. Coffey 1924
Ml. Lyne 1941
Denny Lyne 1941
Teddy Lyne 1941
John Murphy 1941
J. C. Cooper 1949
Mixie Palmer 1949
om Spillane 1954
Johnny Culloty 1954
Weeshie Fogarty 1967
Diarmuid O'Donoghue 1983
Padraig Brosnan 1983
Sean Hegarty 2006 (Captain)
Pádraig O’Connor 2019




= All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship

=
Denny Murphy 1975
Padraig Brosnan 1976
Peter O'Leary 1990
Sean Hegarty 1998




= All-Ireland Minor Football Championship

=
Timmy O'Leary 1931-32-33
Ml. Lyne 1933
Johnny Brien 1946
Donie Murphy 1946
J. J. Sheehan 1946
Marcus O'Neill 1950
Tim Kelliher 1963
Padraig Brosnan 1975
Paudie Sheehan 1975
Richard O'Brien 1980
Peter O'Leary 1988
Cian Gammell 2017
Darragh Lyne 2018
Kieran O'Donoghue 2018




= All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship

=
(with East Kerry)

Ml. Lyne (Faugh) 1971
Noel Power 1971
Weeshie Fogarty 1971
Johnny Culloty 1971




= National Football League

=
D. O'Connor 1928-29-30
Johnny Culloty 1958-60-61-63-69-71
Peter O'Leary 1997
Diarmuid O'Donoghue 1984
John Cronin 2004




= Railway Cup Football

=
D. O'Connor 1931
Jackie Lyne 1946-48-49
Tom Spillane 1949




= All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship

=
Johnny Culloty 1961




= All-Ireland Colleges Hogan Cup

=
Donie Murphy
J. J. Sheahan
Pat Lucey with Munster 1947
Tommy Leahy with St. Brendan's 1969
Denis Doodey, Donal O'Leary, Darren Counihan, Ted Bowler




= Universities Sigerson Cup

=
Jackie Lyne U.C.C. 1943
John Trant U.C.G. 1948-50
Donie Murphy U.C.G. 1948
John Keane U.C.C. 1988 (Captain)
Sean Hegarty Tralee IT 1999
Brian Kelly University College Cork 2014
Shaun Keane University College Cork 2014




Roll of honour


Kerry Senior Football Championship: (1) 1946 Runners-Up 2015
County Club Championship: (1) 1994 Runners-Up 2013, 2014
Kerry Intermediate Football Championship: (1) 2005
Kerry County Football League - Division 1: (1) 1993
East Kerry Senior Football Championship: (6) 1929, 1954, 1955, 1967, 1976, 2019 Runners-Up 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1984, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2023
East Kerry Senior League Title: (7) 1933, 1936, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1950, 1953
East Kerry Junior Football Championship: (2) 1980, 2014
East Kerry Junior League Titles:(6) 1932, 1934, 1946, 1954, 1974, 1976.




References






External links


Official Legion Club GAA Website

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Killarney Legion GAA
• Killarney GAA
• Killarney
• Beaufort GAA
• East Kerry GAA
• South Kerry GAA
• James O'Donoghue
• Weeshie Fogarty
• Tom Spillane Snr
• Peter O'Leary (Kerry Gaelic footballer)