Dromtarriffe
Dromtarriffe is a Duhallow club in north-west Cork, based in the parish around Dromagh and Rathcoole. It won the Cork senior football title in 1893, and today it plays intermediate football and has spent the last decade in a running battle with Newmarket for the Duhallow junior hurling crown.
Cork Champions in 1893
The club was set up in 1885, a year after the GAA, with Fr Pat Brennan as its first chairman. Eight years later Dromtarriffe were the best football team in Cork. After winning the North Cork championship and getting a walkover from Clondrohid in the county semi-final, they beat Castlemartyr 2-4 to 2-2 after extra time in the county final in Fermoy. John O’Keeffe was captain.
Kerry did not field a team that year, so Cork’s champions went straight into the All-Ireland final against the Young Irelanders of Wexford in the Phoenix Park. The game was never finished and the title was awarded to Wexford. One of those 1893 medals turned up years later on Patrick Street in Cork city, found by Nemo Rangers man John Travers, who returned it to the club.
Junior Kings, 59 Years Apart
After reopening in the mid-1920s, the club won the Cork Junior A football title in 1934 and the Intermediate title in 1935, then more junior titles in 1938 and 1959. The wait for the next one lasted 59 years. On 27 October 2018 at Páirc Uí Rinn, Dromtarriffe beat Kilmacabea 2-9 to 2-8 in the county junior final, with Séamus O’Sullivan as captain.
Hurling has grown fast alongside the football. Dromtarriffe won the Duhallow Junior A hurling title in 2018, three in a row from 2020 to 2022, and again in 2024. Newmarket beat them in the 2023 and 2025 finals, and the two met again at Banteer on 3 October 2026 after Dromtarriffe came through wins over Banteer, Kilbrin and Freemount. Newmarket held on to the title.
Top of the Group, Out in a Duhallow Derby
In the 2026 Cork Intermediate A Football Championship, Dromtarriffe won all three group games. They beat St Finbarr’s, edged Gabriel Rangers 3-15 to 3-13 with Evan Murphy scoring 2-1, and finished with a 4-12 to 0-16 win over Mitchelstown to top Group B on score difference.
The quarter-final against neighbours Boherbue in Ballydesmond on 25 September was a tight Duhallow derby. Dromtarriffe got back to within a point with ten minutes left, but Boherbue closed it out 0-15 to 0-12.
Conor O’Callaghan
Red and White
Dromtarriffe’s first colours were green with a gold sash. When the club reopened in the mid-1920s it switched to Cork’s red, and today the jersey is mainly red with white trim. The crest shows a bull, from the Irish Drom Tairbh, along with the River Blackwater, the hills of the parish and a castle recalling the O’Keeffe strongholds at Dromsicane, Drominagh and Dromagh.
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Sources & Further Reading
- Dromtarriffe GAA: club history, colours and crest
- Cork GAA: 2026 Intermediate A football knockout draw
- The Southern Star: Dromtarriffe v Gabriel Rangers, 2026
- The Echo: Boherbue v Dromtarriffe, 2026 quarter-final
- The Echo: 2026 Duhallow Junior A hurling final preview
- Newmarket GAA: 2026 Duhallow Junior A hurling final
- Wikipedia: 2018 Cork Junior A Football Championship
- Wikipedia: Dromtarriffe GAA, honours
Facts checked: 11 November 2026.