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Counties as used in Gaelic games outside Ireland cover large geographic non-traditional areas which are not considered as counties in any other context. For example, Scotland is a county for GAA purposes, as is London , while the remaining counties of Great Britain cover wider areas than their names suggest.
The following article provides a list of Gaelic games governing bodies, county boards and associations around the world. The principal governing body is the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). The two dominant sports of the Gaelic games are traditionally played in separate regions of Ireland .
A province is a geographic region within Gaelic games, consisting of several counties of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and originally based on the historic four provinces of Ireland as they were set in 1610.
List of clubs by county (Gaelic games). While the area under the administration of some of these county boards are similar to the areas of the counties of Ireland, others are dissimilar while still others are not counties at all being extraterritorial.
The counties of Ireland (Irish: Contaetha na hÉireann) are historic administrative divisions of the island.They began as Norman structures, and as the powers exercised by the Cambro-Norman barons and the Old English nobility waned over time, new offices of political control came to be established at a county level.
This is category for Gaelic games by county, i.e. the unit used within the sports. While the area under the administration of some of these county boards are similar to the areas of the counties of Ireland, others are dissimilar. Others still, e.g. London, may not be widely recognised as counties at all, being extraterritorial.
Fans of Tyrone (red and white) and Meath (green and yellow) on Hill 16 in Croke Park watching the teams' 2007 All-Ireland football quarterfinal.. The county colours (Irish: dathanna na gcontaetha) [1] [2] of an Irish county are the colours of the kit worn by that county's representative team in the inter-county competitions of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), the most important of which ...
This is a list of nicknames for the traditional counties of Ireland and their inhabitants. The nicknames are mainly used with reference to the county's representative team in gaelic games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). A few of the names are quite old and well-known; most are recent coinages mainly used by journalists.