Cappagh

Cappagh is a Gaelic and hurling team located in the area of Newtown, Ovidstown and tirmoghan and they sometimes span as far as clonshambo Co Kildare. Cappaghs current team of people born in 2009 or under 14s have made it to the final many times however more recently lost a tight match to sallins. In GAA and hurling cappagh usually merges with Kilcock]] and becomes Saint Cocas. Cappagh doesn't have a Mens senior team and the woman's team became champions of Kildare this year. The cappagh pitch I'd located in Newtown Co.Kildare. The pitch of this team is located in Newtown.

History

Cappagh was founded by Paddy Butler and John Murray in the aftermath of the Easter Rising. Their grounds in Ballyvauneen, southwest of Cappagh, were purchased in 1971 and their dressing room complex opened in 1955

Gaelic

Kerryman Tadhg Downey played at corner forward on the 1939 Kildare championship team. At Downey’s behest, Cappagh adopted the red jerseys of the Dingle club, worn by Kerry in the 1938 All Ireland final. They amalgamated with Kilcock 1938-41 and 1955-62 Jim Daly and Pat Lyons played on the Kildare team in 1950.

Hurling and Camogie

Hurling was introduced at Nursery level in 2010 by current hurling coordinator Tom Murray. They won their first hurling trophy with their u12 div 4 in 2015. On the same day their u12 team in Div 2 narrowly lost to Kilcock in their final. They were also name hurling club of the year by Kildare north Board. This was followed up with the u12 winning div 2 in 2016 and being promoted to div 1 for the following year. In 2016 Cappagh amalgamated with Broadford at u14, under the name Northern Gaels. They played in Féile and lost to Celbridge in the final and went on to win the shield final in the shield again against Celbridge. The Northern Gaels followed this up with winning the shield final in the u15 in the autumn 2016.

Camogie

Founded on 5 October March 1972 by Molly O’Donoghue and Lena Downey winners of 20 titles at under-age level and are the only camogie club to have their own pitch. The original club colours were grey and white, now grey red and white. Cappagh hosted the National League Division 2 final of 1980. In 1978 they became the first club in Kildare to achieve the Kildare Senior Camogie Championship- Kildare Junior Camogie Championship double.

Honours and awards

Kildare Intermediate Football Championship (1) 1946 Finalists 1944Leinster Leader Cup Finalists 1946Kildare Junior B Football Championship (2) 1975, 1990 Finalists 1978Kildare Junior Football Championship Finalists 1942Kildare Senior Football League Division 3: Champions (1) 1977Kildare Junior C Football Championship (1) 1975Kildare Junior 7-A-Side Championship (1) 2005The Leinster Leader Junior Club Cup (2) 1997, 2006Bord na nÓg Football Under 13s Div4 League Champions (1) 2009Bord na nOg Football under 14 Div 4 League Champions 2010.Féile DivC Football Champions 2011Kildare Ladies football Under 13's Div3 Championship (1) 2014Kildare Under-12 Div. Championship (1) 2015Kildare Camogie Under-21 Championship (1) 2015Kildare Camogie senior shield Championship (1) 2015.Kildare Under-12 Hurling Div. 2 Championship (1) 2016Kildare Under-12 Shield Championship - Northern Gaels (Cappagh & Broadford amalgamation) Spring 2016.Kildare Under-15 Shield Championship Northern Gaels Autumn 2016Kildare Camogie Under-12 Championship (1) 2017.