Colmcille GFC


Colmcille GFC 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 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 : 1890, 1938, 1949, 1952, 1958, 2008, 2022Longford Senior Football League : 1954, 1957, 1990Longford Senior ACFL Division 1 : 1990, 2020, 2022Longford Senior ACFL Division 2 : 2024Longford Intermediate Football Championship : 1986Longford Junior Football Championship : 1937, 1979, 1998, 2020Longford U-21 Football Championship : 2001, 2002, 2003, 2015 Longford Minor Football Championship : 1953, 1962, 1963Longford Juvenile Football Championship : 1955, 1960, 1997Longford Ladies Intermediate Football Championship : 2011, 2021Longford Ladies Junior Football Championship : 2010, 2019Longford Ladies Juvenile Football Championship : 1999, 2000Longford Ladies U-14 Football Championship : 1998, 1999

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