Mostrim Parish
Two clubs from the Mostrim (Edgeworthstown) parish won key titles over the years:
- Edgeworthstown (Volunteers / Young Irelands)
- Mostrim
Title Allocation: Titles of the above-listed clubs are displayed separately in winner tables, as separate and distinct club units.
Edgeworthstown began as Edgeworthstown Volunteers in 1889 and competed in both the 1890 and unfinished 1891 Senior Football Championships. The club name appears to have been shortened to Edgeworthstown in the 1910’s and the club won the Junior Championship in 1929 as Edgeworthstown (final played in February 1930). In 1930 the club was renamed Edgeworthstown Young Irelands and won the Intermediate Football Championship of 1932 as Young Irelands. Shortly thereafter the club split (reputedly along political lines) which led to the formation of the Edgeworthstown Geraldines club who competed alongside Edgeworthstown Young Irelands for a period in the early 1930’s as two separate clubs in the same parish. By 1935 there is no sign of either club in competition but we do see the brief emergence of Edgeworthstown Wolfe Tones and Manor Rovers clubs in the mid 1930’s before both clubs then vanish by the end of 1936. There is no club activity in the parish again until Mostrim Eoin Ruadhs club was formed in 1937.
Mostrim was formed in 1937 as Mostrim Eoin Ruadhs and then shortened to Mostrim from 1938. The club was formed at a time when other earlier clubs in the parish had disbanded. All key football titles won in the parish from the late 1930’s onward were won by Mostrim. The adult hurling section of the Mostrim GAA club was formed in 1982, initially as St. Mary’s and then renamed Wolfe Tones.
Our research did not find any direct link between the Mostrim Eoin Ruadh club formed in 1937 and the various clubs that preceded it in the parish in the 1930’s. We could not find any evidence of continuation from the Edgeworthstown Young Irelands club or indeed the Edgeworthstown Geraldines club and the Mostrim Eoin Ruadhs club which is now the Mostrim club. After consultation with the Mostrim club’s archivist on the issue, we were unable to establish any factual link between the modern-day Mostrim club and any of the club’s that predated it prior to 1937 in the parish, beyond the common link of being a GAA club in that parish at different times. Hence we display titles won by Edgeworthstown or Edgeworthstown Young Irelands separate from titles won by Mostrim in the respective winners table.
Note: There was also a number of other clubs & short-lived teams in the parish of down the years (see Link). The above assessment is specifically about those clubs who won Key Titles (i.e. SFC, SFL, SHC, IFC, IFL, JFC, JFL, ACFL Titles or U-21 ‘A’ Championship).
