Monasterevin G.F.C.

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
Mainistir Eimhin
Founded:1880
County:Kildare
Nickname:The Barrowside Blues
Colours:Blue and White
Grounds:Fr Prendergast Park, Cowpasture, Monasterevin
Coordinates:53.1405°N 7.055°W / 53.1405; -7.055
Playing kits
Standard colours
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Leinster
champions		 Kildare
champions
Football: 0 0 3
Hurling: 0 0 3

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

Bibliography
  • Monasterevan GAA: Scéal An Blían 1974. Monasterevan. 1974. p. 40.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Monasterevan GAA: Scéal Na mBlíana 1974-1981. Monasterevan. 1981. p. 48.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Eoghan Corry (1984). Kildare GAA: A Centenary History. CLG Chill Dara. ISBN 0-9509370-0-2.
  • Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000 (in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000)
  • Joan O'Flynn. Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004. Kildare County Camogie Board.

References
  1. "Monasterevin's heroes of '77 to be honoured on special night". Kildare Nationalist. 15 September 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
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