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| CLG Na Cúnna, Léim an Mhadaidh | ||
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| Founded: | 1980 | |
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| County: | Derry | |
| Nickname: | The Hounds | |
| Colours: | Blue and Yellow | |
| Grounds: | Pairc na gCúnna | |
| Coordinates: | 55°03′00.59″N6°56′10.50″W / 55.0501639°N 6.9362500°W /55.0501639; -6.9362500 | |
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Limavady Wolfhounds GAC (Irish:CLG Na Cúnna, Léim an Mhadaidh) is aGaelic Athletic Association club based inLimavady,County Londonderry,Northern Ireland. The club is a member ofDerry GAA and currently caters for bothGaelic football andcamogie.
Underage teams up to U-12s play inNorth Derry league and championships, from U-14 upwards teams compete in All-Derry competitions. Limavady have won theDerry Intermediate Football Championship once and theDerry Junior Football Championship three times.
Wolfhounds GAC Limavady was officially established in 1980. However, there had a been a history ofGaelic games in the area before the founding of the current club. In 1903 St Patrick's Limavady hurling club was set up; its star player Henry Patton won anUlster medal as part of the Derry team that defeatedAntrim in the 1903Ulster Senior Hurling Championship final.[1]
Football was also played in Limavady, in the form of O'Connor's Limavady. They won the 1936 and 1941 Dr. Kerlin Cups beating Park (forerunner to the modern-dayBanagher team) and Magilligan in the respective finals. The club also contested theDerry Senior Football Championship final in 1937??. Having won the 1938 North Derry Senior Football Championship, they were defeated byLavey in the 1938 All-Derry Senior Championship semi-final.[2] They reached the All-Derry final in 1941, but were defeated byBallinascreen. In the late 1960s the St. Michaels GAC club was formed on the banks of theRiver Roe, from an amalgamation of players from the Limavady,Magilligan, andGlack areas, but later folded.
Success came relatively soon for the Wolfhounds club, when in 1985 five years after their formation they won theDerry Junior Football Championship, Derry Junior League and Neil Carlin Cup. After moving up to Intermediate grade, the club won the 1989Derry Intermediate Football Championship. The club were relegated to Junior level again in the 1990s and won the Derry Junior Championship twice more, in 1999 and 2003. Following on from this success the club are currently trying to maintain their position amongst the Intermediate ranks.
This club caters for both male and female Gaelic football.[citation needed]
The Camogie club was reestablished in 2004 after a long absence in the parish. There are U14, and Senior Camogie teams. The Senior Team play in the intermediate Derry League.[citation needed]
After a gap of decades, there have been efforts to re-establish hurling in the area. Limavady fields a U10 team.[citation needed]
