South West Junior A Hurling Championship

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South West Junior A Hurling Championship
IrishCraobh Iomáint Sóisearach A
CodeHurling
Founded1925; 97 years ago (1925)
RegionColours of Wexford.svg Carbery (GAA)
TrophyFlyer Nyhan Cup
No. of teams11
Title holdersColours of Cork.svg Ballinascarthy (6th title)
Most titlesColours of Mayo.svg Clonakilty (17 titles)
SponsorsRCM Tarmacadam
Official websiteCarbery GAA

The South West Junior A Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the RCM Tarmacadam Carbery Junior A Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Carbery Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1925 for junior hurling teams in the Barony of Carbery in County Cork, Ireland.

The series of games begin in May, with the championship culminating with the final in September. The championship includes a knock-out stage and a "back door" for teams defeated in the first round.

The South West Junior Championship is an integral part of the wider Cork Junior A Hurling Championship. The winners and runners-up of the South West Championship join their counterparts from the other six divisions to contest the county championship.

As of 2020, 11 clubs currently participate in the South West Championship. The title has been won at least once by 13 different clubs. The all-time record-holders are Clonakilty, who have won a total of 17 titles.

Ballinascarthy are the title-holders after defeating St Mary's by 0-22 to 0-14 in the 2021 final.

The championship[]

Overview[]

The South West Junior Championship is effectively a knockout tournament with pairings drawn at random — there are no seeds.

Each match is played as a single leg. If a match ends as a draw there is a period of extra time. However, if both sides are still level at the end of extra time, a replay takes place and so on, until a winner is found.

Participating teams (2021)[]

Team Location Colours
Ballinascarthy Ballinascarthy Red and white
Bandon Bandon Yellow and white
Clonakilty Clonakilty Green and red
Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's Castletown-Kinneigh Blue and gold
Dohenys Dunmanway Green and white
Kilbree Rossmore Blue and white
Newcestown Newcestown Red and yellow
St. Colum's Kealkill Black and orange
St. James's Ardfield Green and gold
St Oliver Plunkett's Ahiohill Black and white
St Mary's Enniskean Black and gold

Qualification for subsequent competitions[]

The South West Junior Hurling Championship winners and runners-up qualify for the subsequent Cork Junior A Hurling Championship. Prior to 2017, qualification for the county series was limited to just the championship-winning team.

Trophy[]

The winning team is presented with the Flyer Nyhan Cup. A native of Clonakilty, John "Flyer" Nyhan (1892-1934) was a member of some excellent Clonakilty teams which contested the county middle grade hurling final in 1912, won the county intermediate football title in 1913 and then won the prestigious South Coast Railway Shields in both football and hurling in 1914.[1] The cup was presented for the first time in 1961.

Roll of honour[]

# Team Wins Winning Years Runners-Up Losing Years
1 Colours of Mayo.svg Clonakilty 17 1939, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1950, 1952, 1961, 1962, 1976, 1977, 1983, 2004, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2020 8 1926, 1947, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1979, 1980, 2009
2 Colours of Cork.svg Courcey Rovers 15 1947, 1948, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1973, 1974 5 1950, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1972
3 Colours of Antrim.svg Bandon 13 1929, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1949, 1960, 1971, 1975, 1990, 1995, 1999, 2009 9 1932, 1940, 1941, 1968, 1969, 1984, 1991, 1997, 1998
4 Colours of Kilkenny.svg Kilbrittain 12 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1978, 1984, 1985 14 1929, 1931, 1933, 1939, 1957, 1959, 1965, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982, 2002, 2005
5 Flag of Naples.svg Newcestown 9 1967, 1969, 1972, 1979, 1980, 1988, 1991, 1992, 2014 7 1963, 1964, 1970, 1989, 2003, 2004, 2007
6 Colours of Dublin.svg Barryroe 7 1981, 1982, 1986, 1987, 1994, 2006, 2007 5 1985, 1992, 1996, 1999, 2000
7 Colours of Cork.svg Ballinascarthy 6 1989, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2019, 2021 5 1966, 1971, 2001, 2017, 2018
8 Colours of Tipperary.svg Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's 5 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2010 5 1983, 1993, 2006, 2014, 2015
9 Colours of Limerick.svg Dohenys 4 1958, 1959, 1963, 2013 9 1936, 1937, 1938, 1960, 1974, 1975, 2010, 2011, 2012
10 Colours of Cork.svg Skibbereen 3 1931, 1932, 1933 8 1928, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1956, 2008
Colours of Galway.svg Argideen Rangers 3 1993, 1996, 2003 3 1990, 1994, 1995
12 Colours of Laois.svg Kilbree 2 2016, 2018 1 2019
13 Colours of Sligo.svg St. Oliver Plunkett's 1 2011 0 -
14 Colours of Kerry.svg St Mary's 0 - 5 1942, 1978, 1987, 2020, 2021
Colours of Kilkenny.svg St. Colum's 0 - 3 1986, 2013, 2016
Knockavilla 0 - 1 1927
Colours of Limerick.svg Valley Rovers 0 - 1 1930
Colours of Galway.svg Timoleague 0 - 1 1934
Darrara 0 - 1 1935
Ballydehob 0 - 1 1951
Colours of Laois.svg Bantry Blues 0 - 1 1952
Ballineen 0 - 1 1953
Round Towers 0 - 1 1967
Colours of Kerry.svg Randal Óg 0 - 1 1988

List of finals[]

Year Winners Score Runners-up Score
1926 Kilbrittain 3-04 Clonakilty 1-01
1927 Kilbrittain 7-01 Knockavilla 1-01
1928 Kilbrittain 5-02 Skibbereen 1-04
1929 Bandon 6-01 Kilbrittain 4-02
1930 Kilbrittain 2-07 Valley Rovers 2-03
1931 Skibbereen 1-06 Kilbrittain 1-01
1932 Skibbereen 5-05 Bandon 2-03
1933 Skibbereen 7-02 Kilbrittain 0-01
1934 Bandon 3-05 Timoleague 4-05
1935 Bandon 6-01 Darrara 4-02
1936 Bandon 9-04 Dohenys 2-01
1937 Bandon 1-05 Dohenys 2-01
1938 Kilbrittain 4-07 Dohenys 2-04
1939 Clonakilty 8-01 Kilbrittain 2-01
1940 Kilbrittain 5-00 Bandon 1-00
1941 Kilbrittain Bandon
1942 Kilbrittain 3-03 St. Mary's 2-04
1943 Clonakilty 4-04 Skibbereen 1-01
1944 Clonakilty 3-03 Skibbereen 2-02
1945 Clonakilty 8-04 Skibbereen 3-01
1946 Clonakilty 9-08 Skibbereen 0-03
1947 Courcey Rovers 8-03 Clonakilty 3-02
1948 Courcey Rovers 9-00 Skibbereen 2-01
1949 Bandon 3-07 Clonakilty 1-04
1950 Clonakilty 6-04 Courcey Rovers 3-02
1951 Courcey Rovers 3-03 3-05
1952 Clonakilty 2-07 Bantry Blues 2-05
1953 Courcey Rovers 4-07 3-03
1954 Courcey Rovers w/o Clonakilty scr.
1955 Courcey Rovers 3-02 Clonakilty 3-01
1956 Courcey Rovers 6-05 O'Donovan Rossa 2-04
1957 Courcey Rovers 6-05 Kilbrittain 3-03
1958 Dohenys 4-03 Courcey Rovers 3-03
1959 Dohenys 4-09 Kilbrittain 0-01
1960 Bandon 4-09 Dohenys 1-02
1961 Clonakilty 6-08 Courcey Rovers 6-01
1962 Clonakilty 5-03 Courcey Rovers 4-05
1963 Dohenys 3-06 Newcestown 2-07
1964 Courcey Rovers 3-06 Newcestown 2-03
1965 Courcey Rovers 4-10 Kilbrittain 1-06
1966 Courcey Rovers 5-11 Ballinascarthy 1-04
1967 Newcestown 3-06 1-04
1968 Courcey Rovers 1-09 Bandon 1-06
1969 Newcestown 2-09 Bandon 2-08
1970 Courcey Rovers 3-06 Newcestown 0-09
1971 Bandon 3-13 Ballinascarthy 2-05
1972 Newcestown 5-07 Courcey Rovers 2-04
1973 Courcey Rovers 1-11 Kilbrittain 0-05
1974 Courcey Rovers 6-11 Dohenys 1-04
1975 Bandon 6-08 Dohenys 1-06
1976 Clonakilty 2-09 Kilbrittain 2-05
1977 Clonakilty 1-11 Kilbrittain 2-05
1978 Kilbrittain 3-13 St. Mary's 2-04
1979 Newcestown 2-08 Clonakilty 2-04
1980 Newcestown 2-16 Clonakilty 1-11
1981 Barryroe 5-04 Kilbrittain 1-05
1982 Barryroe 2-09 Kilbrittain 2-04
1983 Clonakilty 3-09 Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's 2-10
1984 Kilbrittain 2-12 Barryroe 0-08
1985 Kilbrittain 3-16 Barryroe 1-05
1986 Barryroe 1-10 St. Colum's 0-03
1987 Barryroe 1-11 St. Mary's 1-04
1988 Newcestown 3-10 Randal Óg 1-04
1989 Ballinascarthy 1-09 Newcestown 0-07
1990 Bandon 1-08 Argideen Rangers 0-10
1991 Newcestown 2-10 Bandon 4-03
1992 Newcestown 0-12 Barryroe 0-06
1993 Argideen Rangers 2-07 Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's 0-08
1994 Barryroe 2-08 Argideen Rangers 2-04
1995 Bandon 4-07 Argideen Rangers 1-15
1996 Argideen Rangers 3-14 Barryroe 2-15
1997 Ballinascarthy 0-15 Bandon 0-10
1998 Ballinascarthy 6-07 Bandon 1-10
1999 Bandon 0-17 Barryroe 1-12
2000 Ballinascarthy 0-12 Barryroe 0-09
2001 Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's 0-15 Ballinascarthy 0-05
2002 Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's 1-09 Kilbrittain 0-07
2003 Argideen Rangers 0-13 Newcestown 1-06
2004 Clonakilty 1-11 Newcestown 1-08
2005 Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's 0-11 Kilbrittain 0-08
2006 Barryroe 0-16 Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's 2-05
2007 Barryroe 3-12 Newcestown 0-06
2008 Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's 0-09 O'Donovan Rossa 0-07
2009 Bandon 1-10 Clonakilty 1-09
2010 Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's 3-12 Dohenys 1-15
2011 St. Oliver Plunketts 2-15 Dohenys 0-12
2012 Clonakilty 3-13 Dohenys 2-14 [2]
2013 Dohenys 4-09 St. Colum's 1-09 [3]
2014 Newcestown 0-16 Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's 0-10 [4]
2015 Clonakilty 4-14 Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's 0-08 [5]
2016 Kilbree 3-07 St. Colum's 0-12 [6]
2017 Clonakilty 2-21 Ballinascarthy 1-16 [7]
2018 Kilbree 1-18 Ballinascarthy 2-12 [8]
2019 Ballinascarthy 2-18 Kilbree 1-11 [9]
2020 Clonakilty 2-17 St. Mary's 0-19 [10]
2021 Ballinascarthy 0-22 St. Mary's 0-14 [11]

Notes:

  • 1928 - An objection by Kilbrittain was upheld and a replay was ordered.
  • 1940 - The first match ended in a draw: Kilbrittain 2-07, Bandon 3-04.
  • 1951 - An objection by Courcey Rovers was upheld and they were awarded the title.
  • 1982 - The first match ended in a draw: Barryroe 2-10, Kilbrittain 3-07.
  • 1983 - The first match ended in a draw: Clonakilty 1-05, Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's 1-05.
  • 1990 - The first match ended in a draw: Bandon 1-08, Argideen Rangers 0-11.
  • 1999 - The first match ended in a draw: Bandon 2-21, Barryroe 6-09.
  • 2000 - The first match ended in a draw: Ballinascarthy 1-13, Barryroe 2-10.
  • 2001 - The first match ended in a draw: Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's 0-15, Kilbrittain 2-09.
  • 2005 - The first match ended in a draw: Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's 0-14, Kilbrittain 3-05.
  • 2006 - The first match ended in a draw: Barryroe 1-08, Diarmuid Ó Mathúna's 1-08.
  • 2012 - The match ended in a draw and extra-time was played.

Records[]

By decade[]

The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of South West Junior Hurling Championship titles, is as follows:

Gaps[]

Top five longest gaps between successive championship titles:

Winners and finalists[]

The Double[]

Five teams have won the South West Junior Hurling Championship and the South West Junior Football Championship in a single year as part of a hurling-Gaelic football double. Kilbrittain became the first team to win the double in 1926. Bandon are the record holders having claimed the double on four occasions - 1929, 1960, 1971 and 1975. Dohenys are the only club to have won a back-to-back double - 1958 and 1959. Newcestown (1967) and Clonakilty (1977) complete the list of double-winning teams.

Club sides Argideen Rangers, Ballinascarthy and O'Donovan Rossa also hold the distinction of being dual divisional junior championship-winning teams, however, these were not achieved in a single calendar season.

References[]

  1. ^ "Restored grave of John 'Flyer' Nyhan will be blessed on Easter Monday". The Southern Star. 27 March 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  2. ^ "White delivers for Clonakilty in extra-time". Irish Examiner. 1 October 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Dohenys' 50 year wait over". Irish Examiner. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Newcestown ends 22 year wait for South West junior A hurling championship title in 2014". The Southern Star. 3 January 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  5. ^ "Champions Clon not in best shape ahead of title defence". The Southern Star. 24 June 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  6. ^ "Cork club round-up: Sugrue's 4-9 paves way for Bandon in Cork IFC while Nemo retain their crown". Irish Examiner. 5 September 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  7. ^ "Clonakilty crowned South West junior A hurling champions". The Southern Star. 3 September 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Kilbree show composure to clinch crown". The Southern Star. 24 September 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  9. ^ "Ballinascarthy hurlers lift the Flyer Nyhan Cup for the first time since 2000". Echo Live. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  10. ^ "Goals prove pivotal as Clonakilty hurlers claim 17th Carbery crown". Irish Examiner. 27 September 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  11. ^ "Carbery JAHC final: Ballinascarthy have too much firepower for Mary's to capture the title". Echo Live. 26 October 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2021.

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