ABOUT
Errigal Ciaran GAC (Aireagal Chiaráin) is a Gaelic Athletic Association Gaelic football club in the southern part of County Tyrone, in North of Ireland. Errigal Ciaran GAC represents the parish of the same name, which incorporates the village of Ballygawley and Ballymacilroy, Garvaghy, Dunmoyle and the surrounding areas. The club was founded in its current guise in 1990, succeeding the Ballygawley St Ciaran’s club which represented the parish from the 1920s until the 1980s.
HISTORY
From 1928 until 1982, the parish of Errigal Ciarán was represented by Ballygawley St Ciaran’s. The club’s re-formation as Errigal Ciarán in 1990 gave rise to an era of unprecedented success over the next two decades, with the club’s most recent success coming in 2022 when they captured their 10th Tyrone Senior Football Championship.
(1926, 1931, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2012, 2022)
The club has also produced many illustrious players, such as Peter Canavan, and the former Tyrone manager, Mickey Harte, who started his managerial career guiding Errigal to Ulster Championship success. Errigal Ciarán are the only club team in Tyrone to win the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship, with two championship successes to date, in 1993 and 2002.
The Club are also represented in the Tyrone ACL Div 3 by a Junior team and in the Tyrone Ladies’ senior football league Division 1.
The clubs men’s Junior team entered the Tyrone ACL at the beginning of the 2007 Season. This team have reached the Tyrone Junior championship Semi Final on one occasion (2011) and followed this up with their most successful league campaign to date in 2012, reaching the promotion playoffs.
Their continued presence and ability to compete in Tyrone Junior Football is testament to the great popularity of Gaelic Football within the parish.
The club’s senior ladies’ team play in Tyrone’s top flight. They have won the Tyrone senior championship title on four occasions. In 2007 when they won their first County Title, they went on to win the Ulster Ladies’ senior club football championship. They went on to capture County Titles in 2012 and 2015, and in 2023 they annexed their fourth title when they defeated St.Macartans Augher in Extra time to become Champions of Tyrone Ladies Once again.
Cardinal MacRory Park
Errigal Ciaran GAC’s Home ground is located on Park Road. Dunmoyle.
Our home ground was named Cardinal MacRory Park and was officially opened on 9th September 1956 by the then GAA President Mr Seamus McFerran and Dean of Diocese of Armagh Rev. Monsignor John M. Quinn.
“In naming a Gaelic Athletic Park, it is fitting that it be named after a great man, especially if that man be a son of the parish: it is more fitting if that man were himself an athlete, and more fitting still if he were a gael – a lover and supporter of all things Gaelic”
