Lees GAA
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| Founded: | 1886 | ||||||||
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| County: | Cork | ||||||||
| Colours: | Red and black | ||||||||
| Grounds: | The Marina, Cork | ||||||||
| Senior Club Championships | |||||||||
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Lees Football Club is a defunct Cork-based Gaelic Athletic Association club on the southside of Cork city, Ireland. The club was founded in 1886 and was primarily concerned with the game of Gaelic football. The club had a strong association with the Lee Rowing Club and the teams were largely made up of West Cork men working in the city.[1][2][3]
By the late 1920s the club was almost defunct and at the 1929 AGM of a rival club, Nils, the chairman "stressed the fact that Gaelic Football was in a deplorable state in the city at the present time, and teams of long connection with the GAA like Nils and Lees, found it almost impossible to put a single senior team team on the field when a couple of years back they could put senior, intermediate and junior teams. There was certainly work for an organiser here to organise Gaelic football in Cork City and help to bring it back to the high position in the GAA which it held some years back."[4]
History
Honours
- Cork Senior Football Championships: 12
- 1887, 1888, 1896, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1907, 1908, 1911, 1914, 1923, 1955
Famous players
References
- ↑ "Cork GAA: History". Cork GAA website. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
- ↑ "Lee Rowing Club". Cork Past and Present website. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
- ↑ The heart of Cork football still beats Moran, Sean. The Irish Times (1921-Current File) [Dublin, Ireland] 03 May 1997
- ↑ Irish Examiner 1841-current, Monday, March 04, 1929; Page: 11