Suncroft GFC

Suncroft

Crochta na Gréine
Founded:	1929
County:	Kildare
Nickname:	The Croft
Colours:	Green and Red
Grounds:	Suncroft Community Field, Askinraw Lane, Suncroft
Coordinates:	53°06′23″N 6°51′30″W / 53.1064°N 6.8583°W / 53.1064; -6.8583
Playing kits
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Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Leinster champions Kildare champions Hurling: - - 1

Suncroft is a Gaelic football club in Suncroft, County Kildare, Ireland, winner of the day Senior Hurling championship in 1974 and the Senior Football League in 1952. Paul Doyle was selected on the Kildare Gaelic football team of the millennium. Anthony Rainbow was an All Stars Award winner in 2000.

History

In 2009, Suncroft completed one of the biggest shocks in the Kildare Senior Football Championship by beating the highly fancied Sarsfields by 2-12 to 0-15 at St Conleths Park.^{[citation needed]}

Honours

• Kildare Senior Hurling Championship: Winners 1974.
• Kildare Senior Football League (1) 1952
• Kildare Senior Football Championship Semi-finalists 1995, 2009
• Kildare Intermediate Football Championship (4) 1944, 1950, 1989, 2007
• Kildare Junior A Football Championship: 1977
• Kildare Junior Football Championship: 1930, 1962
• Kildare Minor B Football Championship 2015
• Kildare Minor Football Championship (3) 1944, 1948, 1949
• Keogh Cup Champions 2003

Bibliography

• Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, ISBN 0-9509370-0-2 hb ISBN 0-9509370-1-0 pb
• Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
• Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.

External links

• Kildare GAA site
• Kildare GAA club sites
• Kildare on Hoganstand.com

This page was last edited on 30 January 2024, at 11:54