Saint Malachy's GAC Castledawson is a Gaelic Athletic Club from Castledawson, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of Derry GAA and currently competes in gaelic football, hurling and camogie.
History
St Malachy's GAC was set up largely thanks to Paddy Graham from the townland of Tamnadace outside the village. The Graham Cup, a reserve competition for South Derry clubs, is named in his honour. Although a relatively small club, they competed for several years in the Derry senior league.
Camogie Castledawson fields camogie teams at U10, U12, U14, U16, Minor, and Senior levels.
Football titles
Senior Derry Junior Football Championship: 1 1958 Larkin Cup: 1 1997 McGlinchey Cup: 3 2007, 2010, 2013 Derry Intermediate Football Championship: 3 2010, 2014, 2016 Graham Cup: 2 2002, 2017
Minor Tommy O'Neill Cup: 1 2006 (shared with Foreglen) Minor 'B' Football Championship: 1 2015 Minor 'B' Football League: 1 2015 South Derry Minor 'B' Football Championship: 1 2006
Camogie titles
Derry Premier Camogie Championship: 1 2007
Notable players
Matt Sonny McCann - Former Derry and Ulster footballer. Dermot Heaney - 1993 All-Ireland Championship winning Derry footballer. Adrian Heaney - Former Derry Minor, Under 21 and Senior Player who was the Senior team captain Seamus Heaney, the 1995 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature played as a boy for Castledawson, the club in the area of his birth.
See also Derry Senior Football Championship List of Gaelic games clubs in Derry
External links St Malachy's GAC website
References