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The local GAA team is called St. Gabriels. In 1979 they won a Galway football title. Since then they have won the Junior B championship and Junior A league. They won "underage club of the year" in 2011. St
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had rallied the Irish towards victory when his head was blown off by cannon fire and the Irish fled the field, only to be cut down in their thousands by the
English forces. Hundreds of the O'Kellys lost their lives in this battle.
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The last known prosecution of a priest under the Popery Acts was the trial in 1822 of Fr John O'Connor, parish priest of
Aughrim and Kilconnell, at the Galway Summer Assizes. He was acquitted.
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Cappataggle. St Gabriels Ladies GAA Football Club plays its home games in Aughrim and it trains also in Kilconnell at the St Gabriels sports complex.
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Kilconnell is in the parish of
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410:See also
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