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Suncroft

Crochta na Gréine

Founded:

1929

County:

Kildare

Nickname:

The Croft

Colours:

Green and Red

Grounds:

Suncroft Community Field, Askinraw Lane, Suncroft

Coordinates:

53°06′23″N 6°51′30″W / 53.1064°N 6.8583°W / 53.1064; -6.8583

Playing kits

Standard colours

Senior Club Championships

	All Ireland	Leinster champions	Kildare champions
Hurling:	-	-	1

Suncroft is a Gaelic football club in Suncroft, County Kildare, Ireland, winner of the day Senior Hurling championship in 1974 and the Senior Football League in 1952. Paul Doyle was selected on the Kildare Gaelic football team of the millennium. Anthony Rainbow was an All Stars Award winner in 2000.

History

In 2009, Suncroft completed one of the biggest shocks in the Kildare Senior Football Championship by beating the highly fancied Sarsfields by 2-12 to 0-15 at St Conleths Park.

Honours

Kildare Senior Hurling Championship: Winners 1974.
Kildare Senior Football League (1) 1952
Kildare Senior Football Championship Semi-finalists 1995, 2009
Kildare Intermediate Football Championship (4) 1944, 1950, 1989, 2007
Kildare Junior A Football Championship: 1977
Kildare Junior Football Championship: 1930, 1962
Kildare Minor B Football Championship 2015
Kildare Minor Football Championship (3) 1944, 1948, 1949
Keogh Cup Champions 2003

Bibliography

Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, ISBN 0-9509370-0-2 hb ISBN 0-9509370-1-0 pb
Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.

External links

Kildare GAA clubs

Football
Senior Football Championship	Allenwood Athy Carbury Celbridge Clane Confey Castledermot Eadestown Johnstownbridge Leixlip Maynooth Moorefield Naas Monasterevin Sarsfields Saint Laurence's
Intermediate Football Championship	Ballyteague Ballymore Castlemitchell Clogherinkoe Ellistown Kilcock Kill Round Towers Nurney Raheens Rathangan Sallins Saint Kevin's Straffan Suncroft Two Mile House
Junior Football Championship	Ardclough Athgarvan Ballykelly Cappagh Caragh Grange Kildangan Kilcullen Milltown Rathcoffey Rheban Robertstown

Hurling
Senior Hurling Championship	Ardclough Celbridge Clane Coill Dubh Confey Éire Óg-Corrachoill Kilcock Leixlip Maynooth Naas
Other hurling clubs	Athy Broadford Kill Moorefield Naomh Bríd Ros Glas Saint Laurence's Sallins Sarsfields
Underage amalgamations	Balyna (Clogherinkoe and Johnstownbridge) Cill Éide (Eadestown and Kill) Cúchulainn Gaels (Athgarvan, Ellistown and Kildangan) Geraldine's (Castlemitchell, Grangenolvin and Rheban) Killard (Ardclough and Kill) Na Fianna (Allenwood, Ballyteague, Milltown and Robertstown) Saint Coca's (Cappagh and Kilcock) Saint Columba's (Confey and Leixlip) Saint Edward's (Rathcoffey and Straffan) Saint Oliver Plunkett's (Ballymore and Eadestown)

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