Blackrock GAA

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Blackrock

An Charraig Dhubh

Founded:

1883

County:

Cork

Nickname:

The Rockies

Club colours:

Green and Yellow

Grounds:

Church Rd., Blackrock





Standard colours

Senior Club Championships

	All Ireland	Munster champions	Cork champions
Hurling :	3	5	32

Blackrock is a Gaelic Athletic Association club on the southside of Cork City, Ireland. The club was founded in 1883 and is primarily concerned with the game of hurling.

1 Hurling
- 1.1 History
- 1.2 Honours
2 Notable Former Hurlers
3 Bibliography
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Hurling

[edit] History

In a city that boasts three of hurling's most notable clubs, Blackrock, on the southside of Cork city, has seen some considerable success. Blackrock Hurling Club was officially founded in 1883, one year before the foundation of the Gaelic Athletic Association itself. It is therefore the oldest club in Cork. Until 1888 the club was known as Cork Nationals, when it changed its name to National Hurling Club of Blackrock, and later in the same year to the shortened title of Blackrock National Hurling Club.

Blackrock won eight of the of the first nine Cork Senior Hurling Championship titles and, in the early years of the All-Ireland Championship when the winning clubs represented the county, subsequently claimed the All-Ireland titles for Cork in 1893 and 1894. Blackrock once again claimed the All-Ireland hurling title for Cork in 1903 and were such a dominant force in Cork hurling that up until the 1930s the Blackrock club selected the county team.

Blackrock's dominance in Cork hurling has been challenged on occasions by Glen Rovers and St. Finbarr's, however, Blackrock have always been close to the top. The team enjoyed a successful spell in the 1970s winning All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship titles in 1972, 1974 and 1979, along with five Munster titles in the same decade.

[edit] Honours

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championships: 5
- 1893, 1894, 1903, 1925, 1931

Munster Senior Hurling Championships: 5
- 1893, 1903, 1912, 1926, 1931

All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championships: 3
- 1972, 1974, 1979

Munster Senior Club Hurling Championships: 5
- 1971, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1979

Cork Senior Hurling Championships: 32
- 1887, 1889, 1891, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1897, 1898, 1903, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1920, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1956, 1961, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1985, 1999, 2001, 2002

[edit] Notable Former Hurlers

[edit] Bibliography

East to Mahon, The Story of Blackrock, Ballintemple, Ballinlough, Ballinure and Mahon, Richard Henchion, Dahadore Publications, 15 Wilton Lawn, Cork, 2005. ISBN 0-9541293-2-6