placenamesCrettyard
Crochta Ard
A club founded in 1991 rebuilt a local football tradition and developed a permanent home.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Crochta Ard · Irish · main form · validated name
- Crettyard · English · main form
Place & story
Founding Crettyard United
Crettyard United AFC was formed on 18 June 1991 at a meeting in the Whiskey Shop in Newtown, Crettyard. The club’s history credits Bill Delaney, Jimmy Dunne and John Behan among those who brought football back to the district after earlier teams had disappeared. The new team won its first competitive match against Levitstown in the Carlow Shield that August. [2]
Building a football club
The club won the Carlow Challenge Cup in 1994 and secured its first Premier League title in the 1998–99 season. It initially used several local grounds before adopting Killeen Sports Field in 1997. Its history records a further landmark in 1999–2000, when the first team won a league, shield and cup treble. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Slievemargy
- Civil parish
- Killabban
- Within
- Crettyard
- Coordinates
- 52.84077, -7.12433 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413857 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Crettyard. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Club History · Crettyard United AFC
- Post office at Crettyard illustration: based on a Crettyard, County Kilkenny by Sarah777. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.