Beara Junior A Football Championship

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Beara Junior A Football Championship
Code	Gaelic football
Founded	1927; 95 years ago (1927)
Region	Beara (GAA)
No. of teams	1
Title holders	Urhan (28th title)
Most titles	Urhan (28 titles)
Official website	Carbery GAA

The Beara Junior A Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Beara Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1927 for junior Gaelic football teams in the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland.

The championship is currently suspended due to the fact that Urhan are the only team categorised as junior A in the division.^[1] The title has been won at least once by eight different clubs. The all-time record-holders are Urhan, who have won a total of 28 titles.

The Beara Junior Championship is an integral part of the wider Cork Junior A Football Championship. The winners of the Beara championship join their counterparts from the other seven divisions to contest the county championship.

Roll of honour[]

#	Team	Wins	Winning Years	Runners-Up	Losing Years
1	Urhan	28	1927, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1943, 1944, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1973, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019	16	1932, 1947, 1953, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1989, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018
2	Adrigole	22	1929, 1938, 1961, 1962, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006	11	1930, 1933, 1941, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1985, 1987, 1992
3	Garnish	18	1928, 1932, 1940, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1978, 1979, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018	23	1929, 1935, 1938, 1944, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1976, 1980, 1983, 1990, 1991, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2019
4	Castletownbere	10	1947, 1949, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977	14	1942, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1959, 1971, 1973, 1981, 1982, 1988, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998
5	Bere Island	7	1930, 1936, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1981, 1985	10	1928, 1934, 1937, 1943, 1949, 1954, 1956, 1962, 1984, 1986
6	St. Mary's, Ardgroom	2	1954, 1964	2	1966, 1970
7	Glengarriff	1	2009	7	1952, 1993, 1995, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2015
	Allihies	1	1935	2	1927, 1936
	Lauragh	1	1937	1	1948
10	Eyeries	0		2	1939, 1940
	St. Brendan’s	0		1	1968

List of finals[]

Records[]

By decade[]

The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of Beara Junior A Football Championship titles, is as follows:

• 1920s: 1 each for Urhan (1927), Garnsih (1928) and Adrigole (1929)
• 1930s: 3 each for Bere Island (1930-36-39) and Urhan (1931-33-34)
• 1940s: 2 each for Garnish (1940-48), Bere Island (1941-42), Uhan (1943-44) and Castletownbere (1947-49)
• 1950s: 6 for Urhan (1950-55-56-57-58-59)
• 1960s: 4 each for Adrigole (1961-62-66-68) and Castletownbere (1963-65-67-69)
• 1970s: 4 for Castletownbere (1974-75-76-77)
• 1980s: 5 for Urhan (1980-82-83-87-88)
• 1990s: 4 for Adrigole (1993-94-98-99)
• 2000s: 6 for Adrigole (2000-01-02-04-05-06)
• 2010s: 5 each for Urhan (2010-11-12-15-19) and Garnish (2013-14-16-17-18)

Gaps[]

Top ten longest gaps between successive championship titles:

• 39 years: Bere Island (1942-1981)
• 24 years: Garnish (1953-1978)
• 23 years: Adrigole (1938-1961)
• 16 years: Garnish (1979-1995)
• 15 years: Urhan (1992-2007)
• 14 years: Castletownbere (1949-1963)
• 14 years: Urhan (1959-1973)
• 12 years: Adrigole (1972-1984)
• 10 years: St. Mary's, Ardgroom (1954-1964)
• 10 years: Garnish (2003-2013)

References[]