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Our Sporting Heritage

Killererin has a long sporting tradition in a wide variety of sports ranging from GAA to Cycling, Athletcis and most recently mountaineering.  We hope you enjoy reading about the various participants here.

  • Athletics

    Athletics

    St. James' Athletcis Club
  • Gun Club

    Gun Club

  • Killererin Soccer team 1972

    Killererin Soccer team 1972

    Killererin take on Luton Harps in Barnaderg
  • Micky Coen

    Micky Coen

    (“I had ten fights, I won nine”)
  • Mount Everest

    Mount Everest

    No Limits
  • Tommy Hughes - Hero of 1934

    Tommy Hughes - Hero of 1934

    My life and times on the football field
People
  • 1871 - Donations received towards repair of Church
  • Car Rallying in Killererin
  • Charles Bianconi
  • Church Records - Baptisimal Registry 1895
  • Dear James ....
  • Down Memory Lane
  • Eddie Ward
  • Elopement
  • Farming
  • Farrington and Cunningham families
  • Fashion through the Ages in Killererin
  • Final Resting Places
  • Final Resting Places - Old Cemetery Killererin
  • First Garda Barracks at Clogherboy
  • Fr. Thomas Wilson
  • Keanes Shop Photo Gallery
  • Killererin Heritage Society
  • Kirwans of Hillsbrook
  • Landlords and Big Houses in Killererin
  • Lecture on Michael Collins by Nora Owen
  • Local Musicians Struck a Sweet Note
  • Mai and Patrick Coen
  • McHugh and Connelly Ancestors
  • My McCusker family
  • New York Wedding
  • Nolan of Garra House
  • Photo Gallery
  • Pop Star Buys Moyne Park
  • Proud to be Irish
  • Robert William Waithman of Moyne House
  • Ruttledges of Barbersfort
  • School Rolls
  • Seven Generations of Synges
  • Tall Tales by the late Pat Monaghan
  • Thank you for your prayers.
  • The Legacy of a famished orphan
  • The Loughans/Loghans/Lohans/Logans Grange, Killererin, Co. Galway
  • The Missing Duck
  • The Travelling Shows
  • Townland of Grange
  • Tramps and Travelling Salesmen
  • What it said in the papers
  • World War 1 and the Killererin connection
  • 1937 Schools Folklore Collection
  • Obituaries
  • Emigration
  • Interviews
  • Killererin's Military History
  • Nora Williams' Stories - Tales From the Past
  • Photo Gallery
  • Priests and Nuns from the parish and Priests that served in the parish
  • Our Sporting Heritage
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