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The Dungiven hurling team was renamed Kevin Lynch's Hurling Club in his honour after his death.
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Dungiven and hurling
St Canice's Dungiven is the local Gaelic football club and Kevin Lynch's is the local hurling club.
Dungiven and was
William Dillon, Mitchel's biographer tells that " about the year 1810, he was put in charge of the church at or near Dungiven, in the county of Derry.
* Dungiven was the terminus of the Limavady railway, which closed in 1950.
* John Mitchel, a 19th century Irish patriot who inspired the Young Ireland Movement, was born in Camnish, near Dungiven and Burnfoot.
He was a member of the Shankill Defence Association and in 1971 he was convicted of riotous behaviour in Dungiven.
This project was intended to be the first of several schemes including the " A5 dualling Derry to Aughnacloy " planned to commence in 2012 and the " A6 dualling Dungiven to Derry " due to commence in 2013.
Haslet was born in Straw, Dungiven, County Londonderry in Ulster, Ireland about 1727, son of Joseph and Ann Dykes Haslet.
* In answer to a written parliamentary question in June 2006, it was revealed that the average daily flow of traffic over the Glenshane Pass between Dungiven and Maghera on the A6 was approximately 5, 500 in each direction.
The Limavady to Dungiven section of the line was closed on 3 July 1950.
On 12 July (" The Twelfth ") there was further rioting in Derry, nearby Dungiven, and Belfast.
During the clashes in Dungiven, Catholic civilian Francis McCloskey ( 67 ) was beaten with batons by RUC officers and died of his injuries the following day.
Dungiven and after
Mitchel Park in Dungiven is named after him.
Dungiven is mentioned in the Brian Friel play Making History, as the place where Mabel Bagnel goes after the Siege of Kinsale.
The rescued motorists were initially taken to a leisure centre in Dungiven but had to be moved again after power cuts in the area.
Dungiven and .
Picture showing the fortifications of the RUC station in Dungiven.
Francis McCloskey, a 67-year old Catholic civilian had been found unconscious on 13 July near the Dungiven Orange Hall following a police baton charge against a crowd who had been throwing stones at the hall.
Born in Camnish, near Dungiven, County Londonderry, Ireland he became a leading member of both Young Ireland and the Irish Confederation.
They were barons of Cianacht and Coleraine in Ulster under the Ó Néill, ruling from Dungiven Castle in Dungiven, which is 14km from Limavady.
These include Dungiven Priory which is reputed to be the tomb of Cú Maige na nGall (" Cooey-na-Gall ") Ó Catháin, who died in 1385.
Dungiven () is a small town and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Dungiven sprang up around Dungiven Castle and the Church of Ireland church at the eastern end of the town, later spreading westwards along Chapel Road and Main Street towards the bridging point on the River Roe.
An interesting site in Dungiven is the 11th century Augustinian priory of St Mary's and the tomb of O ' Cahan ( Cooey na Gall O ' Cahan ), laid to rest in 1385.
In the early 17th century they built Dungiven Castle, which-having been substantially rebuilt in the 19th century-remains today as a restaurant and guesthouse.
During The Troubles in Northern Ireland seven people were killed in or near Dungiven in connection with the conflict, six of them members of the security forces.
* At Dungiven Castle, built during the reign of James I on the south side of the town, there is a Environmental and Conservation Park consisting of Victorian gardens, wetlands, woodlands, a duck pond and picnic area.
* Altahullion Wind Farm is near Dungiven and is owned by RES-Gen Ltd.
The public can visit the site by following the signs from the A6 Dungiven to Derry road.
Dungiven is classified as an intermediate settlement by the NI Statistics and Research Agency ( NISRA ) ( i. e. with population between 2, 250 and 4, 500 people ).
On Census day ( 29 April 2001 ) there were 2, 993 people living in Dungiven.
A proposed by-pass for Dungiven, following a route to the south west of the town, has been marked-out since the 1973 Limavady Area Plan.
Dungiven railway station opened on 4 July 1883, closed for passenger traffic on 1 January 1933 and closed altogether on 3 July 1950.
hurling and team
The Dublin team plays most of their home league hurling and Gaelic Football games at Parnell Park.
Camogie (; formerly called camoguidheacht ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women ; it is almost identical to the game of hurling played by men.
The Clare hurling team has one of the best records of success in the country in recent years with many cups such as the Liam McCarthy Cup having been won in 1995 and 1997 and also finalists in 2002.
The local Gaelic football team, Strabane Sigersons, and the hurling team, Strabane Seamrogaí, are ever expanding.
He played hurling with his local club Glen Rovers and with the Cork senior inter-county team from 1936 until 1950.
While the footballers were later defeated in the All-Ireland semi-final, Lynch ’ s hurling team went on to win a third All-Ireland title in-a-row.
Later that year Cork created a piece of sporting history by becoming the first team to win four All-Ireland hurling titles in-a-row.
In 1945 Cork surrendered their provincial hurling crown, however, Lynch, as a member of the Cork senior football team won his second Munster football title.
He also played with the college hurling team – a precursor to the modern day hockey club.
Wexford had a brilliant hurling team in the 1950s which included the famous Rackard Brothers, Nicky, Bobby, and Willie, Art Foley who was the goalkeeper, Ned Wheeler, Padge Kehoe, Tom Ryan, Tim Flood, Jim Morrissey, Nick O Donnell, to name but a few.
Cross-community teams such as the Belfast Cuchulainn under-16 hurling team have been established and gone on to compete at the Continental Youth Championship in America.
* Manager ( Gaelic games ), a coach of a Gaelic games team, most notably in Gaelic football and hurling
Birr also has a very successful hurling team, Birr GAA, winning the all-Ireland championship four times.
* Fingal GAA, hurling team representing Fingal
The Institute senior hurling team captured the Fitzgibbon Cup in 2005 and 2007 and the senior rugby team captured the All-Ireland Colleges Championship in 1998, 1999 and 2005.
The local Gaelic football and hurling team is the Castlebar Mitchels club ; a club with a proud and illustrious past, including 27 Mayo senior football championships and one Mayo senior hurling championship titles.
Castlepollard have a hurling team, Castlepollard Hurling Club with two hurling clubs nearby, Lough Lene Gaels in neighbouring Collinstown and Ringtown.
He played hurling with the Glen Rovers club from 1941 until 1967 and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team from 1939 until 1963.
By 1939 Ring was too old for the minor grade, however, he went on to become the youngest member of the Cork junior hurling team.
That defeat saw the break-up of the great four-in-a-row team of the 1940s and was followed by four lean years of championship hurling for Cork.
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