Largest town with one GAA club?

cms88

Where/what is the largest/biggest towns with just one gaa club? I would think its Portlaoise. What other big towns only have one?

AOH77A

Lucan ...

MfMan

Do you mean the same club catering for both football and hurling? Both Ballinasloe and Tuam, 2nd and 3rd largest towns in Galway, have one of both.

Ogie16

Ballincollig??

blue note

Tramore would be one of the bigger ones. About 12 thousand catered for with one club.

How many clubs does bray have?

Hesh's Umpire

Naas is bigger than Portlaoise. Only one club as far as I know.

Hesh's Umpire

blue note wrote: »

Tramore would be one of the bigger ones. About 12 thousand catered for with one club.

How many clubs does bray have?

There's two clubs in Bray. Emmets and Fergal Og.

celticbest

Balbriggan, O'Dwyers just under 25,000 catered for.

http://population.mongabay.com/population/ireland/2966794/balbriggan

goldfinger4296

Ennis Town 28,000 Eire Og with Clarecastle, Doora Barefield in the suburbs

Xenophile

Definitely not Clonmel,

Clonmel Commercials Football Club,
Saint Mary's Hurling Club,
Clonmel Og Hurling and Football Club
and
Moyle Rovers Hurling and Football Club just perched on the doorstep of all the above.

Grueller

Not sure of the population of Gorey but they have only one club.
Wicklow town has only one.
New Ross has only one.
They are the ones close enough to here that I know of.

Utopia Parkway

How many clubs in Athlone?

Pocaide

Castlebar ?

Mushy

Probably not the biggest, but Greystones would be sizeable for one club.

fatherted1969

Naas has a huge population, doesn't make any difference when it comes to snr championships though cos they haven't won one in years. Think the surrounding clubs just outside the town probably benefit more from it with kids coming out through not getting much playing time. Must be tough trying to manage enormous numbers

barneystinson

blue note wrote: »

Tramore would be one of the bigger ones. About 12 thousand catered for with one club.

Whatever about the town having only one club, Tramore must be one of the biggest clubs in the country (in terms of catchment) that only fields adult teams at junior level, having dropped out of both intermediate football & hurling now.

padd b1975

Pocaide wrote: »

Castlebar ?

I would have thought Castlebar too, although Breaffy and Burrishoole are very close.

paul71

First answer is the correct one from what I see by a long way.

Lucan population 46,000
Naas 21,000
Ballincolig 20,000
Castlebar 12,000

Fr Tod Umptious

padd b1975 wrote: »

I would have thought Castlebar too, although Breaffy and Burrishoole are very close.

Breaffy is only a few miles out the road from Castlebar.
Burtishoole is about 15 miles away !

If you are thinking of Ballintubber then that is about 10 miles away.

Clareman

goldfinger4296 wrote: »

Ennis Town 28,000 Eire Og with Clarecastle, Doora Barefield in the suburbs

Don't forget The Banner GAA club they are in the town as well. Also, if you're including Clarecastle & Doora Barefield as suburban clubs then you should consider including Kilmaley and Ballyea as well.

Hemerodrome

Manhattan, 1.6 million 😊

Clareman

Hemerodrome wrote: »

Manhattan, 1.6 million 😊

Technically Manhatten is part of New York City so loads of clubs

lanomist

Grueller wrote:

Not sure of the population of Gorey but they have only one club. Wicklow town has only one. New Ross has only one. They are the ones close enough to here that I know of.

Rathnew is very close to Wicklow town and a lot of their players are from Wicklow town

big_drive

On a side note population probably is over rated. Many towns have a large percentage of foreign nationals who wouldn't even know what the gaa is. Of course it does give the potential to have larger numbers underage, holding onto the numbers seems to be an issue in most places

padd b1975

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Breaffy is only a few miles out the road from Castlebar.
Burtishoole is about 15 miles away !

If you are thinking of Ballintubber then that is about 10 miles away.

Yes, I meant Ballintubber, my mistake.

There would be a healthy local rivalry there between themselves and Castlebar.

For Forks Sake

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

How many clubs in Athlone?

Two on the Westmeath side (Athlone and Garrycastle) and Clann na Gael on the Roscommon side.

Reputable Rog

goldfinger4296 wrote: »

Ennis Town 28,000 Eire Og with Clarecastle, Doora Barefield in the suburbs

That 28,000 takes in a large area outside of the town and would take in the catchments of Clarecastle, Ballyea, Kilmayley and St Joseph's. You also forgot the Banner GAA club.

feargale

Lisburn, population 71,465.

Richard

feargale wrote: »

Lisburn, population 71,465.

There is a club in Holywood Co Down which is an amalgamation of clubs which previously existed there, in Bangor and Newtownards. The combined population served by this club is 100,000, though GAA is not big in the area.

The_Kew_Tour

Mallow be up their, but they're still crap.

Producer Ben

Castlehavens catchment area stretches from Union Hall in west Cork as far as Cork City.

Grueller

lanomist wrote: »

Rathnew is very close to Wicklow town and a lot of their players are from Wicklow town

Ya and a lot of potential Gorey players play with Castletown, Kilanerin and Tara Rocks but they are still the only club in the town as are the pats in Wicklow. If they cannot make themselves attractive enough to the players in their catchment area that is their worry.

Reputable Rog

Producer Ben wrote: »

Castlehavens catchment area stretches from Union Hall in west Cork as far as Cork City.

Carberry, Clonakilty, Valley Rovers, Bandon etc might dispute that assertion.

feargale

Richard wrote: »

There is a club in Holywood Co Down which is an amalgamation of clubs which previously existed there, in Bangor and Newtownards. The combined population served by this club is 100,000, though GAA is not big in the area.

You won't accept Lisburn? OK. I'll see your tripolitan Hollywood/Bangor/Newtownards 100,000 and raise you New Delhi (India Wolfhounds ) with a catchment population of 1,276,000,000.

cilles man

According to the last Cencus of 2011, the Colmcilles Club in East Meath would have a catchment area of 21,658, with Laytown , Bettystown , Mornigton having 10,889 and the St Marys parish having 10,769. Back in the 50s & 60s it was served by two teams Stars of the sea and Shallon , both junior sides . Today they are plying their trade at Intermediate but are currently being hampered by a lot of soccer clubs in the area(4 soccer clubs).

thewildcat

Tullamore another big town with just one club.

Hurling Hereford

thewildcat wrote: »

Tullamore another big town with just one club.

Portlaoise's population in 2011 Census = 20,145

Tullamore's population in 2011 Census = 14,361

keeponhurling

Shanghai, population 23 million