Colmcille GFC (Gaelic Football Club) is a Gaelic Football and Ladies Gaelic Football club based in Aughnacliffe, County Longford, Ireland. Colmcille most recently won the Longford Senior Football Championship in 2022 defeating Mullinalaghta by a scoreline of 1-07 to 0-08.
History Colmcille GFC is named for Saint Colmcille (or Saint Columba) (AD 521–597) who founded Inchmore monastery on an island nearby on Lough Gowna. The club won the very first Longford Senior Football Championship in 1890 as Columbkille St. Columbkilles. They have won six more county senior titles since then, the latest in 2022.
Colmcille was one of Longford's first five Ladies Gaelic football teams, first playing in 1980.
They play home matches at Fr. McGee Park in Aghacordrinan, south of Aughnacliffe.
Honours Gaelic football Longford Senior Football Championship (7): 1890, 1938, 1949, 1952, 1958, 2008, 2022 Longford Senior Football League (Leader Cup) (3): 1954, 1957, 1990 Longford Senior ACFL Division 1 (3): 1990, 2020, 2022,2026 Longford Senior ACFL Division 2 (1): 2024 Longford Intermediate Football Championship (1): 1986 Longford Junior Football Championship (4): 1937, 1979, 1998, 2020 Longford U-21 Football Championship (4): 2001, 2002, 2003, 2015 Longford Minor Football Championship (3): 1953, 1962, 1963 Longford Juvenile Football Championship (3): 1955, 1960, 1997 Longford Ladies Intermediate Football Championship (2): 2011, 2021 Longford Ladies Junior Football Championship (2): 2010, 2019 Longford Ladies Juvenile Football Championship (2): 1999, 2000 Longford Ladies U-14 Football Championship (2): 1998, 1999
Notable people Eugene McGee Sean Lynch Pearse Daly Declan C Reilly
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