Inniskeen Village - Local Organisations


 Gaelic Football

1. All-Ireland (junior) 1956 2. National Football League '84-'85 3. Monaghan Senior Football Championship 1948 4. Ulster Railway Cup, 1965 5. Monaghan Senior Football Championship, 1938

Cumann Inis Caoin: 1888-Present Gaelic games have had a long and noble tradition in the district, the formation of the club predating the formation of the county board in 1897.Inniskeen has been known as the Grattans since 1938, it being commonplace for a team to be named after some political favourites of the time or Gaelic folklore characters.The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) was founded in Hayes Hotel, Thurles, Co. Tipperary on 1st November 1884. In late 1887, the association arrived in Co. Monaghan with a meeting being held in O'Neills Hotel Carrickmacross at which arrangements were made for the holding of the first senior county championship. Inniskeen won the first county championship in 1888 and went on to represent Monaghan in the Ulster Championship. Monaghan are credited with being the first Ulster champions but the honour belongs to the Inniskeen Grattans club - the first true Ulster club champions.
The present day club supports and fields teams in both Gaelic football and hurling which is very fitting, as according to local history, the original game played by the inhabitants in the district was not football but the game of hurling. Irish was the spoken language of the people at the time and an account of a local match has been handed down to us in the form of a poem 'Iommain Athnagaoin' (The hurling match of Inniskeen), which is ascribed to Micheal McMahaon, a poet from our neighbouring parish of Donaghmoyne.