{{Short description|Derry-based Gaelic games club}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox GAA club | club gaa = St Malachy's GAC Castledawson | irish = An Seanmhullagh | crest = Cdawson gac.png | founded = | province = Ulster | county = Derry | nickname = | colours = White and Black | grounds = The Brough | coordinates = {{coord|54|46|01.84|N|6|32|13.09|W|display=it|region:IE_type:landmark}} | pattern_la = _blackshoulders | pattern_b = | pattern_ra = _blackshoulders | leftarm = FFFFFF | body = FFFFFF | rightarm = FFFFFF | shorts = FFFFFF | socks = FFFFFF }} '''Saint Malachy's GAC Castledawson''' is a Gaelic Athletic Club from Castledawson, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of Derry GAA and currently compete in gaelic football, hurling and camogie.
==History==
St Malachy's GAC was set up largely thanks to Paddy Graham from the townland of Tamnadace outside the village. The Graham Cup, a reserve competition for South Derry clubs, is named in his honour.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.castledawsongac.com/History/founder/|title= History: Club founder|accessdate=2007-09-06 |format= |work= }} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Although a relatively small club, they competed for several years in the Derry senior league.
==Camogie== Castledawson fields camogie teams at U10, U12, U14, U16, Minor, and Senior levels.
==Football titles==
===Senior=== * '''Derry Junior Football Championship:''' 1 ** 1958 * '''Larkin Cup:''' 1 ** 1997 * '''McGlinchey Cup:''' 3 ** 2007, 2010, 2013 * '''Derry Intermediate Football Championship:''' 3 ** 2010, 2014, 2016 * '''Graham Cup:''' 2 ** 2002, 2017
===Minor=== *'''Tommy O'Neill Cup:''' 1 **2006 (shared with Foreglen) *'''Minor 'B' Football Championship:''' 1 **2015 *'''Minor 'B' Football League:''' 1 **2015 *'''South Derry Minor 'B' Football Championship:''' 1 **2006
==Camogie titles==
* '''Derry Premier Camogie Championship:''' 1 ** 2007
==Notable players==
*Matt Sonny McCann - Former Derry and Ulster footballer.{{fact|date=May 2024}} *Dermot Heaney - 1993 All-Ireland Championship winning Derry footballer.{{fact|date=May 2024}} *Adrian Heaney - Former Derry Minor, Under 21 and Senior Player who was the Senior team captain{{fact|date=May 2024}} *Seamus Heaney, the 1995 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature played as a boy for Castledawson, the club in the area of his birth.<ref>{{cite news|first=Jim|last=Carney|authorlink=Jim Carney (poet)|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/why-have-football-and-hurling-remained-a-cultural-wasteland-for-our-writers-and-artists-39103123.html|title=Why have football and hurling remained a cultural wasteland for our writers and artists?|work=Sunday Independent|date=5 April 2020}}</ref>
==See also== *Derry Senior Football Championship *List of Gaelic games clubs in Derry
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080409221641/http://www.castledawsongac.com/ St Malachy's GAC website]
==References==
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{{Derry clubs}}
Category:Gaelic games clubs in County Londonderry Category:Gaelic football clubs in County Londonderry Category:Gaelic games clubs established in 1932 Category:1932 establishments in Northern Ireland
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