Smallest club in each county.
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Random question for the GAA heads here.
Smallest GAA club/parish in each county?
Random one for the GAA historians and local-knowledge merchants.
What would be considered the smallest GAA club or smallest GAA parish/catchment in each county?
I’m especially interested in clubs that don’t really have a “full parish” behind them, or clubs whose catchment is awkward because of county/parish boundaries.
For example, in Laois, Barrowhouse in football and Kyle in hurling would surely be in the conversation. As far as I understand it, both are tied into parish areas that stretch outside Laois, so they aren’t even drawing from a full traditional Laois parish in the way some clubs are. They’re proper small-catchment clubs, but still have their own identity and history.
In Mayo, Ardagh must be one of the smallest parishes in the county in terms of area. It’s a tiny rural parish but still has its own club, which is exactly the sort of example I’m thinking of.
So, county by county, who are the smallest?
Could be based on:
smallest parish area
smallest population/catchment
clubs that don’t have a full parish to themselves
tiny rural clubs still fielding adult teams
clubs that punch way above their numbers
Not necessarily asking for the weakest club — more the smallest pick. The “how are they still producing teams?” type of clubs.