| CLG Chill Chartha | |||||||||
| Founded: | 1924 | ||||||||
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| County: | Donegal | ||||||||
| Colours: | Blue and Gold | ||||||||
| Grounds: | Towney Park | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 54°37′32.97″N 8°36′06.64″W / 54.6258250°N 8.6018444°W | ||||||||
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CLG Chill Chartha[1] is a GAA club based in Kilcar, County Donegal, in Ulster, Ireland.[2] They have won the Donegal Senior Football Championship on six occasions, the last in 2017, they won the Division One title on 14 occasions and are current All Ireland Comórtas Peile champions.
The first recorded game was played on the beach in 1921 which was a inter townland match between “Up the Glen” and Muckross.
The first official match played in Towney was between Ard na Ratha and “South of the County”. The first club match was played on November 9, 1924 against Ballyshannon in Towney with the visitors winning 1-03 to 0-02. Over the following decades the club have achieved success at all age levels and took part in the senior championships until 1967-69 when the club had to join forces with neighbouring parishes in order to field senior teams, the revival started when the club dropped to junior football in 1968 and three years later they won that championship and were back in the senior football championship in 1972 where they have remained ever since winning it five times, and with the under 21s winning three in a row in the early 70s this was the backbone of things to come and the success of the 1980s where we had three strong senior sides competing in all competitions in fact they were the first club in the county to have a third team.
In ten short years after winning the junior championship their second team reached the junior championship final in 1981 and three years later they reached the intermediate final where they were narrowly defeated such was the strength of football in the parish.
In 1993 the ladies team was formed and last year they picked up the Junior B championship and the Division Three league title.
They have provided players to the county teams over the course of our history with 20 different players making county Ulster championship appearances. That’s not counting players who represented the county at league and underage level a remarkable achievement for the size of our parish!
They host the Comortas Peile na Gaeltacht in 2026 (delayed two years due to COVID) which will be the second time in the clubs history with the last one held in 2004.
The club are celebrating their centenary this year.
- ^ "Mark McHugh rejoins the Donegal football squad". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
The Chíll Chartha club man has been named in Rory Gallagher's first panel as county manager
- ^ "Kilcar gear up for car draw". Hoganstand.com. 14 March 2005. Retrieved 30 April 2009.