Mattock Rangers GAA

Mattock Rangers Gaelic Athletic Association is a Gaelic football, camogie, hurling and ladies' Gaelic football club based in Collon, County Louth, Republic of Ireland.[1][2][3][4]

Mattock Rangers
Raonaithe Máiteoige
Founded:1952
County:Louth
Nickname:The Buzzards
Colours:Red and Black
Grounds:Páirc Mattock, School Lane, Collon
Coordinates:53.774747°N 6.481701°W / 53.774747; -6.481701
Playing kits
Standard colours
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Leinster
champions		 Louth
champions
Football: - - 4

History

The club was founded in 1952 and is named after the Mattock River, a tributary of the Boyne.[1]

They won a Louth Junior Football Championship county football title in 1961 and a Louth Intermediate Football Championship title in 1982. Mattock lost their first four Louth Senior Football Championship finals, in 1973, 1976, 1962 and 2001. Senior success finally came in 2002; in that year, Mattock Rangers reached the final of the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship, losing to Dunshaughlin.[2] They have won three more senior titles since then. In 2015, they were relegated to the intermediate grade, which they subsequently won in 2019. They then went on a strong run, winning the 2019 Leinster Intermediate Championship before being beaten by Magheracloone in the All Ireland semi final.

The hurlers have never been county champions, but reached the final of the Louth Senior Hurling Championship in 2011.[3]

Notable players
  • David Reid
  • Adrian Reid
  • Christy Grimes
  • Mike Englishby
  • Marty Englishby
  • David Brennan
  • Mark Brennan
  • Ryan Lenaghan
  • Shane Maguire
  • Ciaran Maguire
  • Mark Lenehan
  • Aaron O’Brien


Honours

Gaelic football

References
  1. "History". mattockrangers.ie.
  2. "Relentless Dunshaughlin a bridge too far for Mattock - Independent.ie".
  3. "Results: GAA club finals". RTÉ Sport. 25 September 2011.
  4. "Mattock Rangers defeat Kilkenny kingpins in Leinster final". Irish Examiner. 8 December 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.


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