Mattock Rangers GAA
Mattock Rangers Gaelic Athletic Association is a Gaelic football, camogie, hurling and ladies' Gaelic football club based in Collon, County Louth, Ireland.
History
The club was founded in 1952 and is named after the Mattock River, a tributary of the Boyne.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. 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.
Notable players
- Damien Reid
- Paddy Geraghty
- David Reid
- Adrian Reid
- Christy Grimes
- Mike Englishby
- Marty Englishby
- David Brennan
- Mark Brennan
- Ryan Lenaghan
- Aaron O'Brien
- Daniel Bannon
- Donal Geraghty
Honours
Gaelic football
- Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship : 2019
- Louth Senior Football Championship : 2002, 2005, 2009, 2010
- Cardinal O'Donnell Cup : 2011, 2015
- Louth Senior Football League Division 1B : 2005
- Louth Intermediate Football Championship : 1982, 2019
- Louth Junior Football Championship : 1961
- Louth Junior 2A Football Championship : 1960
- Louth Junior 2B Football Championship : 2022
- Louth Intermediate Football League : 1996, 1998
- Paddy Sheelan Cup : 2009, 2017, 2024
- Dealgan Milk Products Shield : 1988, 1992, 1993, 1996
- Louth Junior 2A Football League : 1977, 1979, 2004, 2018
- Louth Under-19 Football Championship : 2023
- Louth Junior 2 Football League : 2016