Killarney Legion GAA

Killarney Legion

An Léigúin, Cill Airne

Founded:

1929

County:

Kerry, Ireland

Colours:

Green & White

Grounds:

Dereen, Killarney

Coordinates:

52°04′24.53″N 9°30′26.88″W / 52.0734806°N 9.5074667°WCoordinates: 52°04′24.53″N 9°30′26.88″W / 52.0734806°N 9.5074667°W

Playing kits

Standard colours

Senior Club Championships

	All Ireland	Munster champions	Kerry, Ireland champions
Football:	-	-	1

Killarney Legion are a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland. The club was founded on a March evening in 1929 when a group of eleven men held a meeting in the then Temperance Hall in High Street, Killarney (where O'Shea's garage is today).

Recent History

In the 2007 Kerry Senior Football Championship, Legion reached the 3rd round by beating John Mitchels of Tralee 0-16 to 1-6, then losing to rivals Dr. Crokes 1-16 to 0-9. Legion now have a new state of the art clubhouse and have just commenced the development of a stand aligning the southern side of the main pitch. The stature of the juvenile section of the club is at an all-time high at present. Legion's U14 team represented Kerry in the Feile competition of 2006 held in Wicklow and again in 2009 held in Kildare. Also the minor teams(U18) have reached three county finals in a row since 2007, winning two. The club won the Under 21 Club Chamoionship in 2011 and 2012. Legion's senior team was relegated to Division 2 for the 2014 season, but won that straight away. Killarney Legion GAA came so close to winning the County Championship 2015 after beating Mid Kerry, Feale Rangers, Kerins O' Rahillys and Rathmore. Legion met South Kerry in the County Final but lost in extra time of a replay.

Notable players

All-Ireland medal winners from the Legion include:

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Ml. Coffey 1926
D. O'Connor 1929-32
Timmy O'Leary 1937-39
Ml. Lyne 1937-41
Jackie Lyne 1946-53
Denny Lyne 1946
Donie Murphy 1953
Mixie Palmer 1953-55
Gerald O'Sullivan 1953-55
J. J. Sheehan 1953-55
Johnny Culloty 1955-59-62-69-70
Diarmuid O'Donoghue 1980-84
Peter O'Leary 1997, 2000
John Cronin 2004
Brian Kelly 2014
Jonathan Lyne 2014
James O'Donoghue 2014

All-Ireland Junior Football Championship

Ml. Coffey 1924
Ml. Lyne 1941
Denny Lyne 1941
Teddy Lyne 1941
John Murphy 1941
J. C. Cooper 1949
Mixie Palmer 1949
Tom Spillane 1954
Johnny Culloty 1954
Weeshie Fogarty 1967
Diarmuid O'Donoghue 1983
Padraig Brosnan 1983
Sean Hegarty 2006 (Captain)

All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship

Denny Murphy 1975
Padraig Brosnan 1976
Peter O'Leary 1990
Sean Hegarty 1998

All-Ireland Minor Football Championship

Timmy O'Leary 1931-32-33
Ml. Lyne 1933
Johnny Brien 1946
Donie Murphy 1946
J. J. Sheehan 1946
Marcus O'Neill 1950
Tim Kelliher 1963
Padraig Brosnan 1975
Paudie Sheehan 1975
Richard O'Brien 1980
Peter O'Leary 1988

All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship

(with East Kerry)

Ml. Lyne (Faugh) 1971
Noel Power 1971
Weeshie Fogarty 1971

National Football League

D. O'Connor 1928-29-30
Johnny Culloty 1958-60-61-63-69-71
Peter O'Leary 1997
Diarmuid O'Donoghue 1984
John Cronin 2004

Railway Cup Football

D. O'Connor 1931
Jackie Lyne 1946-48-49
Tom Spillane 1949

All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship

Johnny Culloty 1961

All-Ireland Colleges Hogan Cup

Donie Murphy
J. J. Sheahan
Pat Lucey with Munster 1947
Tommy Leahy with St. Brendan's 1969
Denis Doodey, Donal O'Leary, Darren Counihan, Ted Bowler

Universities Sigerson Cup

Jackie Lyne U.C.C. 1943
John Trant U.C.G. 1948-50
Donie Murphy U.C.G. 1948
John Keane U.C.C. 1988 (Captain)
Sean Hegarty Tralee IT 1999
Brian Kelly University College Cork 2014
Shaun Keane University College Cork 2014

Roll of honour

East Kerry Senior League Title: 1933, 1936, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1950, 1953
East Kerry Senior Football Championship O'Donoghue Cup: 1954, 1955, 1967, 1976 Runners-Up 2013, 2014, 2015^[1]
East Kerry Junior League Titles :1932, 1934, 1946, 1954, 1974, 1976.
Kerry County Football League - Division 1: 1993
County Club Championship: 1994 Runners-Up 2013, 2014^[2]
Kerry Senior Football Championship: 1946 Runners-Up 2015^[3]
Kerry Intermediate Football Championship: 2005

References

↑ "Rathmore retain cup as Legion's wait continues". Irish Examiner. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
↑ "Rampant Crokes show no mercy". Irish Examiner. 20 October 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
↑ "South Kerry land the killer punch". Irish Examiner. 23 November 2015. Retrieved 23 November 2015.

External links

Official Legion Club GAA Website

Kerry GAA clubs

Individual club*	Austin Stacks Dingle Dr. Crokes Gneeveguilla Kerins O'Rahilly's Kilcummin Laune Rangers Legion Rathmore St. Michael's/Foilmore Spa

East Kerry	Dr Crokes Firies Fossa Glenflesk Gneeveguilla Kilcummin Legion Listry Rathmore Scartaglin Spa St. Patricks

Mid Kerry	Beaufort Cromane Glenbeigh-Glencar Keel Laune Rangers Milltown/Castlemaine

North Kerry	Ballyduff Beale Ballydonoghue Ballylongford Duagh Finuge Clounmacon Listowel Emmets Moyvane St. Senan's Tarbert

South Kerry	Sneem St. Mary's Cahirciveen Reenard St. Michael's/Foilmore Skellig Rangers Valentia Dromid Pearses Waterville Derrynane

West Kerry	Lispole Castlegregory Annascaul Dingle An Ghaeltacht

St. Brendan's	Churchill Ardfert St.Pat's, Blennerville Na Gaeil, Tralee John Mitchell's

Kenmare District	Templenoe Kenmare Shamrocks Tuosist Kilgarvan

St. Kieran's	Ballymacelligott Brosna Knocknagoshel Castleisland Desmonds Cordal Currow Scartaglin

Tralee District	Austin Stacks Ballymacelligott Churchill St.Pat's Na Gaeil Kerins O'Rahilly's John Mitchell's Tralee Parnells

Other divisions	Feale Rangers Kenmare Shannon Rangers St. Brendan's St. Kierans

Former clubs	Tralee Mitchels Banna Brick Rangers O'Connells Caherciveen Tralee Celtic

*=Competing as individual club in 2010 Senior Football Championship

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