Glen Rovers GAA

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Glen Rovers
Fánaithe an Ghleanna
Founded: 1916
County: Cork
Nickname: The Glen
Club Colours: Green, Yellow, Black
Grounds: Glen Field
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Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Munster
champions		 Cork
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Hurling : 2 3 25


Glen Rovers is a Cork-based Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the Blackpool area of Cork city. The club was founded in 1916 and is primarily concerned with the game of hurling.

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In April 1916 a meeting of the St. Nicholas Gaelic Football Club was called to form a sister hurling club on the northside of Cork city. This decision meant the birth of Glen Rovers, one of the Gaelic Athletic Association's most illustrious clubs. The club is based in a strong, tough, working-class area of the city. These factors have contributed to the unique "Spirit of the Glen" has existed in the area since the very beginning. Glen Rovers first joined the senior ranks of the Cork County Championship in 1926. The club contested its first county final in 1930, however, the side lost out to a star-studded Blackrock team. However, a careful nurturing of the under-age talent that existed in the area allowed the Glen to become one of the most successful clubs of the 1930s. In 1934 the club won its very first Cork County Championship title. It was to be the first of a remarkable eight county titles in-a-row and copper-fastened their claim to be one of the greatest club hurling sides of all-time. Their luck ran out in the semi-final in 1942, when Ballincollig ended their chance of winning a ninth consecutive title. The Glen continued to win many more County titles in the decades to come and contributed to the golden age of Cork hurling in the 1970s. Unfortunately the club went into decline in the 1980s and 1990s, as the rural clubs in County Cork became more prominent.

  • Munster Senior Club Hurling Championships: 3
    • 1964, 1972, 1976
  • Cork Senior Hurling Championships: 25
    • 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1989

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