Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship

The Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Clare County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association for the second tier hurling teams in the county of Clare in Ireland.

For the football equivalent, see Clare Intermediate Football Championship.

Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship
IrishCraobh Idirmhéanach Iománaíochta Co. an Chláir
Founded1927
Title holders Smith O'Briens, Killaloe (2nd title)
Most titles Broadford (8 titles)

The series of games are played during the summer and autumn months with the county final currently being played at Cusack Park. The championship includes a group stage which is followed by a knock-out phase for the top teams. There is also promotion involving the Clare Senior Hurling Championship and relegation involving the Clare Junior Hurling Championship.

In 2012 it was decided that from 2014 onwards the Clare Senior Hurling Championship would become a single sixteen team championship. This meant that five clubs would lose their senior status and be relegated down to intermediate. However due to the overwhelming success of both the Clare Senior and Under-21 inter-county squads in 2013, the culling of the senior hurling championship was postponed for twelve months. 2014 saw the relegation of Broadford, Doora-Barefield, Ruan, Scariff and Wolfe Tones down to intermediate for the 2015 season.

The 2021 Intermediate Champions are Smith O'Briens, Killaloe who defeated St. Joseph's, Doora-Barefield to win their second ever title at this grade and return to senior ranks for 2022.

Roll Of Honour
Rank Club Titles Winning Years
1. Broadford 8 1941, 1947, 1974, 1981, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2019[1]
2. Whitegate 7 1939 (as Mountshannon), 1942 (as Mountshannon), 1959, 1984, 1992, 2009, 2013
3. Bodyke 5 1932, 1936, 1946, 1969, 1996
Clonlara 1928, 1975, 1989, 1999, 2007
O'Callaghan's Mills 1929 (as Kilkishen), 1933, 1935 (as Kilkishen), 1968, 1977
Ruan 1940, 1948, 1950 (with Dysart), 1978, 2012
Sixmilebridge 1951, 1957 (as Cappa), 1971, 1988, 1990
8. Cratloe 4 1937, 1943, 1970, 1994
Éire Óg, Ennis 1927 (as Ennis Rovers), 1945 (with Doora-Barefield), 1958 (as St. John's, Ennis), 2011
Feakle 1930, 1973, 2014, 2018
St. Joseph's, Doora-Barefield 1945 (with Ennis Dalcassians), 1985, 1993, 2016
12. Clooney-Quin 3 1934 (as Clooney), 1986 (as Clooney), 2006
Crusheen 1960, 1987, 2000
Scariff 1938, 1982, 2020[2]
15. Ballyea 2 1944, 2001
Corofin 1991, 2002
Our Lady's Mental Hospital, Ennis 1952
Inagh-Kilnamona 2005 (as Inagh), 1998 (as Kilnamona)
Kilmaley 1980, 2017
Smith O'Briens, Killaloe 2004, 2021[3]
Tubber 1972, 1976
Wolfe Tones, Shannon 1983, 2015
22. Clarecastle 1 1931
Killanena 2010
Newmarket-on-Fergus 1967
Ogonnelloe 1995
Parteen 1956
Tulla 1979
  • Ennis Faughs were an amalgamation of two junior clubs, Ennis Dalcassians and Doora-Barefield, between 1944 and 1956. The combined team won the Clare Intermediate Hurling Championship in 1945

See also

References
  1. "Broadford Bask In Intermediate Glory". The Clare Echo.
  2. "Scariff's Intermediate Success Magical Says McKenna". The Clare Echo.
  3. "Smith O'Brien's Climb Back To Clare Senior Ranks". Irish Examiner.
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