Irish: | Cill Dara |
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Nickname(s): | The Lilywhites |
Province: | Leinster |
Dominant sport: | Gaelic football |
Ground(s): | St Conleth's Park, Newbridge Conneff Park, Clane |
County colours: | White |
County teams | |
NFL: | Division 3 |
NHL: | Division 2A |
Football Championship: | Sam Maguire Cup |
Hurling Championship: | Joe McDonagh Cup |
Ladies' Gaelic football: | Brendan Martin Cup |
Camogie: | Kay Mills Cup |
The Kildare County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), or Kildare GAA, is one of 12 county boards governed by the Leinster provincial council of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for the administration of Gaelic games in County Kildare. The Lillie's play in the second tier of county football.
The County Board is responsible for preparing the Kildare county teams in the various Gaelic sporting codes; football, hurling and camogie.
The county football team won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC) on four occasions in less than 25 years at the beginning of the 20th century and had accumulated ten Leinster Senior Football Championships by 1935; however, it then went into decline. It last reached an All-Ireland SFC final in 1998 after a gap of 63 years without an appearance in the decider.