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Blackrock
An Charraig Dhubh

Founded:	1883
County:	Cork
Nickname:	The Rockies
Club Colours:	Green and Yellow
Grounds:	Church Rd., Blackrock
Standard colours
Senior Club Championships All Ireland {{{province}}} champions Cork champions Hurling : 3 5 32

Blackrock is a Cork-based Gaelic Athletic Association club on the southside of Cork city. The club was founded in 1883 and is primarily concerned with the game of hurling.

Contents 1 Hurling 1.1 History 1.2 Honours 2 Noted Hurlers 3 Bibliography 4 External links

In a city that boasts three of hurling's greatest clubs, Blackrock, on the southside of Cork city, may claim to be the best of them all. Blackrock Hurling Club was officially founded in 1883, one year before the foundation of the Gaelic Athletic Association itself. It is therefore the oldest club in Cork. Until 1888 the club was known as Cork Nationals, when it changed its name to National Hurling Club of Blackrock, and later in the same year to the shortened title of Blackrock National Hurling Club.

Blackrock won eight of the of the first nine Cork Senior Hurling Championship titles and, in the early years of the All-Ireland Championship when the winning clubs represented the county, subsequently claimed the All-Ireland titles for Cork in 1893 and 1894. Blackrock once again claimed the All-Ireland hurling title for Cork in 1903 and were such a dominant force in Cork hurling that up until the 1930s the Blackrock club selected the county team.

Blackrock's dominance in Cork hurling has been challenge on occasions by Glen Rovers and St. Finbarr's, however, Blackrock have always been close to the top. the team enjoyed a golden spell in the 1970s winning All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship titles in 1972, 1974 and 1979, along with five Munster titles in the same decade.

• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championships: 5
  • 1893, 1894, 1903, 1925, 1931

• Munster Senior Hurling Championships: 5
  • 1893, 1903, 1912, 1926, 1931

• All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championships: 3
  • 1972, 1974, 1979

• Munster Senior Club Hurling Championships: 5
  • 1971, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1979

• Cork Senior Hurling Championships: 32
  • 1887, 1889, 1891, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1897, 1898, 1903, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1920, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1956, 1961, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1985, 1999, 2001, 2002

• Jim Cashman
• Mick Cashman
• Tom Cashman
• Ray Cummins
• John Horgan
• Fergal Ryan
• Wayne Sherlock

• Cork GAA site
• Blackrock GAA site