Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship

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Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship
IrishCraobh Idirmhéanach Iománaíochta Co. an Chláir
Founded1927
Title holdersLuikVlag.svg Smith O'Briens, Killaloe (2nd title)
Most titlesColours of Kerry.svg Broadford (8 titles)

The Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Clare County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association for the second tier hurling teams in the county of Clare in Ireland.

The series of games are played during the summer and autumn months with the county final currently being played at Cusack Park. The championship includes a group stage which is followed by a knock-out phase for the top teams. There is also promotion involving the Clare Senior Hurling Championship and relegation involving the Clare Junior Hurling Championship.

In 2012 it was decided that from 2014 onwards the Clare Senior Hurling Championship would become a single sixteen team championship. This meant that five clubs would lose their senior status and be relegated down to intermediate. However due to the overwhelming success of both the Clare Senior and Under-21 inter-county squads in 2013, the culling of the senior hurling championship was postponed for twelve months. 2014 saw the relegation of Broadford, Doora-Barefield, Ruan, Scariff and Wolfe Tones down to intermediate for the 2015 season.

The 2021 Intermediate Champions are Smith O'Briens, Killaloe who defeated St. Joseph's, Doora-Barefield to win their second ever title at this grade and return to senior ranks for 2022.

Roll Of Honour[]

Rank Club Titles Winning Years
1. Colours of Kerry.svg Broadford 8 1941, 1947, 1974, 1981, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2019[1]
2. Colours of Down.svg Whitegate 7 1939 (as Mountshannon), 1942 (as Mountshannon), 1959, 1984, 1992, 2009, 2013
3. Colours of Kilkenny.svg Bodyke 5 1932, 1936, 1946, 1969, 1996
Colours of Kilkenny.svg Clonlara 1928, 1975, 1989, 1999, 2007
Colours of Kerry.svg O'Callaghan's Mills 1929 (as Kilkishen), 1933, 1935 (as Kilkishen), 1968, 1977
Colours of Clare.svg Ruan 1940, 1948, 1950 (with Dysart), 1978, 2012
Colours of Clare.svg Sixmilebridge 1951, 1957 (as Cappa), 1971, 1988, 1990
8. Colours of Laois.svg Cratloe 4 1937, 1943, 1970, 1994
Colours of Cork.svg Éire Óg, Ennis 1927 (as Ennis Rovers), 1945 (with Doora-Barefield), 1958 (as St. John's, Ennis), 2011
Colours of Kerry.svg Feakle 1930, 1973, 2014, 2018
Colours of Galway.svg St. Joseph's, Doora-Barefield 1945 (with Ennis Dalcassians), 1985, 1993, 2016
12. Colours of Mayo.svg Clooney-Quin 3 1934 (as Clooney), 1986 (as Clooney), 2006
Colours of Cork.svg Crusheen 1960, 1987, 2000
Colours of Limerick.svg Scariff 1938, 1982, 2020[2]
15. Colours of Kilkenny.svg Ballyea 2 1944, 2001
Colours of Cork.svg Corofin 1991, 2002
Our Lady's Mental Hospital, Ennis 1952
Colours of Kerry.svg Inagh-Kilnamona 2005 (as Inagh), 1998 (as Kilnamona)
Colours of Laois.svg Kilmaley 1980, 2017
LuikVlag.svg Smith O'Briens, Killaloe 2004, 2021[3]
Colours of Kilkenny.svg 1972, 1976
Colours of Limerick.svg Wolfe Tones, Shannon 1983, 2015
22. Colours of Sligo.svg Clarecastle 1 1931
Colours of Tipperary.svg Killanena 2010
Colours of Tipperary.svg Newmarket-on-Fergus 1967
Colours of Kilkenny.svg Ogonnelloe 1995
Colours of Laois.svg 1956
Border Tulla 1979
  • Ennis Faughs were an amalgamation of two junior clubs, Ennis Dalcassians and Doora-Barefield, between 1944 and 1956. The combined team won the Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship in 1945

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Broadford Bask In Intermediate Glory". The Clare Echo.
  2. ^ "Scariff's Intermediate Success Magical Says McKenna". The Clare Echo.
  3. ^ "Smith O'Brien's Climb Back To Clare Senior Ranks". Irish Examiner.
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