Limavady GAC

This club caters for both male and female Gaelic Football

• John Deighan - Former Derry Goal Keeper.

[Callum Brown] - Former Derry Midfielder Currently Play Aussie Rules For The GWS Giants In Sidney

The Camogie club was reestablished in 2004 after a long absence in the parish. There are U14, and Senior Camogie teams. The Senior Team play in the intermediate Derry League.

After a gap of decades, there have been recent efforts to re-establish hurling in the area. Work is ongoing and Limavady fields a U10 team.

• Henry Patton - Part of Derry's 1903 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship winning team (played for St. Patrick's)

Wolfhounds GAC Limavady was officially established in 1980. However, there had a been a history of Gaelic games in the area before the founding of the current club. In 1903 St Patrick's Limavady hurling club was set up; its star player Henry Patton won an Ulster medal as part of the Derry team that defeated Antrim in the 1903 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship final.[1]

Football was also played in Limavady, in the form of O'Connor's Limavady. They won the 1936 and 1941 Dr. Kerlin Cups beating Park (forerunner to the modern-day Banagher team) and Magilligan in the respective finals. The club also contested the Derry Senior Football Championship final in 1937??. Having won the 1938 North Derry Senior Football Championship, they were defeated by Lavey in the 1938 All-Derry Senior Championship semi-final.[2] They reached the All-Derry final in 1941, but were defeated by Ballinascreen. In the late 1960s the St. Michaels GAC club was formed on the banks of the River Roe, from an amalgamation of players from the Limavady, Magilligan, and Glack areas, but later folded.

Success came relatively soon for the Wolfhounds club, when in 1985 five years after their formation they won the Derry Junior Football Championship, Derry Junior League and Neil Carlin Cup. After moving up to Intermediate grade, the club won the 1989 Derry Intermediate Football Championship. The club were relegated to Junior level again in the 1990s and won the Derry Junior Championship twice more, in 1999 and 2003. Following on from this success the club are currently trying to maintain their position amongst the Intermediate ranks.

The Wolfhounds enjoyed a prosperous 2018: winning the Derry Junior Treble of League, Championship and Neil Carlin Cup; winning a play-off game for promotion into Intermediate football and reaching the final of the Ulster Junior Championship. Dominic Woods and Noel McFeely assumed managerial roles at the beginning of the season, with Neil McCloy appointed in a coaching role. In particular, the season was marked by the introduction of Callum Brown into the senior side. Callum had previously represented Derry minors in an All-Ireland Final defeat to Kerry and his growing reputation across Ireland injected much excitement into the season's build-up. The anticipation was well-founded, with Callum often displaying feats of spectacular athletic ability and, in particular, putting forth a dominant display against a tough Ballerin side in an intermediate play-off game.

• Derry Intermediate Football Championship
• List of Gaelic games clubs in Derry

• Wolfhounds GAC website