Round Towers GAA (Kildare)

'Round towers is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club based in Kildare in County Kildare, Ireland winner of 10 Kildare county senior football championships , six as Round Towers, three as Kildare and one as St Patrick's. Glenn Ryan featured on the Kildare football team of the millennium and was an All Stars Award winner in 1997 and 1998. Karl O'Dwyer (son of the Kerry Great Micko Dwyer) and Brian Lacey were All Stars Award winners in 1998, and former Wexford hurler and 1989 All Star Eamon Cleary played for the team in the 1990s. A separate club, Naomh Bríd or St Brigid's organises hurling in the town. Three Naomh Bríd players, Tommy Burke, Jack O'Connell, and Pat White were chosen on the Kildare hurling team of the millennium. The Fitzpatrick family founded another club, Mooretown, in the district – its only honour was the Junior C Championship of 1982.

Round Towers
na cloithingne
Founded:1880
County:Kildare
Colours:Black and Amber
Grounds:St Brigid's Park, Kildare
Friary Field, Kildare
Coordinates:53.16113°N 6.914263°W / 53.16113; -6.914263
Playing kits
Standard colours
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Leinster
champions
Kildare
champions
Football: 10 00 00

History

Round Towers takes its name from the round tower in the ground of Kildare Cathedral.

Round Towers were relegated to intermediate football in 2012 after a defeat by one point to St Kevin's in the relegation play-off.

Honours

Senior Committee 2014

Club Chairman Brendan McGee
Vice-Chairman Niall Daly
Club Secretary Padraig Gill
Assistant Secretary Mark Searing
Club Treasurer Rebecca Carroll
Assistant Treasurer Frank McMahon
Registrar Brendan Barber
P.R.O Edward Gibbons
County Board Delegate Paddy Gibney
Coaching Officer Glen Ryan
A.S.A.P Officer
Youth / Children's Officer Valerie Barry
Club Safety Officer

Underage Club Officers 2014

Chairman Kieran Ryan
Vice-Chairman Fergal Stynes
Secretary Bill McDonald
Registrar Brendan Barber
Youth / Children's Officer Valerie Barry
A.S.A.P Officer
Coaching Officer Glen Ryan

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.
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