Round Towers
Na Cloigtithe
Founded:1880
County:Kildare
Nickname:Towers
Colours:Black and Amber
Grounds:St Brigid's Park, Kildare
Old Road,Kildare
Coordinates:53°09′40″N 6°54′51″W / 53.16113°N 6.914263°W / 53.16113; -6.914263
Playing kits
Standard colours
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Leinster
champions
Kildare
champions
Football: 10 00 00

Round towers GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club based in Kildare in County Kildare, Ireland winner of 10 Kildare county senior football championships , six as Round Towers, three as Kildare and one as St Patrick's.

History

Round Towers takes its name from the round tower in the ground of Kildare Cathedral.

Round Towers' most recent Senior Football Championship wins came in 1996 defeating Johnstownbridge, in 1998 defeating Clane and in 2003 defeating Kilcock. Round Towers were relegated to Intermediate Football in 2012 after a defeat by one point to St Kevin's in the relegation play-off. Managed by Glenn Ryan, they won the Intermediate Championship in 2016 with a one-point victory over Two Mile House in a replay.

Notable persons

Glenn Ryan featured on the Kildare Football Team of the Millennium and was an All-Star winner in 1997 and 1998. Karl O'Dwyer (son of Kerry's Mick O'Dwyer) and Brian Lacey were All-Stars winners in 1998, and former Wexford hurler and 1989 All-Star Éamonn Cleary played for the team in the 1990s. Referee Seamus Aldridge played for the club.[1] Ben Ryan played a stormer in the u16 league semi final when scoring 6-12 from full forward.

A separate club, Naomh Bríd or St Brigid's organises hurling in the town. Three Naomh Bríd players, Tommy Burke, Jack O'Connell, and Pat White were chosen on the Kildare hurling team of the millennium. The Fitzpatrick family founded another club, Mooretown, in the district – its only honor was the Junior C Championship of 1982.

Honors

Senior Committee 2022

Club Chairperson Olive Bale
Vice-Chairman
Club Secretary Padraig Gill
Assistant Secretary
Club Treasurer
Assistant Treasurer
Registrar
P.R.O
County Board Delegate
Coaching Officer
A.S.A.P Officer
Youth / Children's Officer
Club Safety Officer

Underage Club Officers 2022

Chairman
Vice-Chairman
Secretary
Registrar
Youth / Children's Officer
A.S.A.P Officer
Coaching Officer

Bibliography

  • Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, ISBN 0-9509370-0-2 hb ISBN 0-9509370-1-0 pb
  • Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000– in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
  • Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904–2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.

References

  1. Crampsie, Arlene (10 March 2011). "Seamus Aldridge". Oral History.
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