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This is a cache and dash at the Ballyboden St. Endas club on Firhouse Road. Parking available at the site, except on Saturday mornings from 9.30 and many Sunday mornings and summertime midweek evenings during matches.
If gates are locked, use pedestrian access through the wall stile, level with the clubhouse building entrance.
Placed with the permission of the GAA club, visitors are welcome so long as they respect the property as all good geocachers would...
Use extreme stealth and BYOP!
Ballyboden St. Enda's (CLG Baile Buadáin Naomh Éanna in Irish) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Knocklyon, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The Club serves the Knocklyon, Ballycullen, Rathfarnham, Ballyboden, Ballyroan, Firhouse areas and currently provides over 70 teams for children, youths and adults.
Their homeground is Pairc Uí Mhurchú, located on the Firhouse Road. Pairc Uí Mhurchú is named after founding member and first chairman of Ballyboden St. Enda's, Ned Murphy (Eamonn Ó Murchú) (1908–1981). They offer hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, and ladies football
They were founded in 1969 after the merger of 2 clubs in the Rathfarnham area - the Ballyboden Wanderers (founded 1910) and Rathfarnham St. Endas (founded 1966).
Boden Ladies Senior Football has 2 All-Ireland, 6 Leinster and 10 Dublin Championships. The Boden Senior A hurling team made history when the side claimed the club's first senior championship crown to complete the full set of four senior titles (hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, and ladies football) - the only club in Ireland with such a distinction.
2011 saw Boden, under captain David Curtin, win the Dublin Senor Hurling Championship for the fifth year in a row.
Ballyboden won their first Dublin Senior Football Championship in 1995. They have won two Dublin AFL Division 1 title and three Dublin Senior Hurling Division 1 leagues.
The club gained their second Dublin Senior Football Championship in 2009, beating local rivals St Jude's by a scoreline of 2.12 to 1.13.
Following their third senior football Dublin title in 2015, Ballyboden St Endas won the club leinster title and then on March 17th 2016 in Croke Park, they defeated Castlebar Mitchels to become the All-Ireland Senior Club Champions
Ballyboden's women's senior football team were crowned All-Ireland Club champions in 2004 with a win over Donoughmore from Cork with a final scoreline of 2-7 to 1-9. They have won 6 Leinster titles and they captured their ninth consecutive county title with victory over Na Fianna in 2008.
Notable players include many Dublin inter-county stars - Michael Darragh Macauley, Gary Maguire, Colin Moran, Paul Bealin, Brian Stynes, Sean Doherty, Fiona Ní Chorcoráin, Martina Farrell, Natalia Hyland, Rachel Ruddy, Síle Nic Coitir, Declan O’Mahony, Conal Keaney, Shane Durkin, Stephen Hiney, David Sweeney, Paul Ryan, Niall McMorrow and David Curtin.
Legendary Australian rules player Jim Stynes and three time golf major winner Padraig Harrington, European Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley and rugby internationals Girvan Dempsey and Eric Millar also played for the Boden in their youth.
Congrats to Gerpod 1 on the FTF!
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