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Caulry (Irish: Cumann Naomh Bríd) is a Gaelic Athletic Association and Ladies Gaelic Football Association club based in the Mount Temple, county Westmeath, Ireland founded in 1928. The club is a member of the Westmeath GAA. At present the club caters for teams at all age levels from Under-6 to Adult in both football and ladies Football in the parish of Ballyloughloe, County Westmeath. They play in red and white colours and their home ground is at Carn Park (Mount Temple) where the club has two pitches.

Current Season -2018
Westmeath Intermediate Football Championship 2018

The Early Years
Fr. Francis Skelly was the Curate in Mount Temple from 1917 to 1932. In 1928 he was faced with the task of building a new Church. Under his strong leadership and in his desire to bring all sections of the Parish together in a unified club, the Caulry club was born.Charlie Griffin, Willie Horton, Abe Oughton, Frank Seery, Jim Allen and Fr. Skelly were instrumental in the setting up of the new club. The name Caulry which is derived from the Gaelic “Cálraighe”, has been applied officially to the Mount Temple/Baylin club since its foundation.The inauguration of the McCrann Cup in 1928 was the high point of South Westmeath football. Caulry contested both League and Championship in the South Westmeath Division with little success.

The 1930’s & 40's
Caulry won their first McCrann Cup final in 1933 beating Athlone by one point in the sports field in Athlone and Larry Nugent also became the first Caulry player to be selected on the Westmeath Senior County football team that same year. Caulry retained the McCrann Cup in 1934 in delayed final held in early 1935. In 1935 Caulry defeated arch rivals Tubberclair in the final of the County League. That year proved to be very successful year for Caulry. With the McCrann Cup and League successfully tucked away, Caulry set out rather late in the season to contest the final stages of the County Junior Championship. In the semi-final they defeated Tubberclair by two points in a reply in Coffee’s field. In the final which was played in Cusack Park in November, Caulry defeated Coralstown in a close fought encounter. In 1935 the Irish Land Commission announced the intention to divide the Carn Estate formerly the property of Thomas Grey Senior, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. The Caulry Club decided to apply for a division of land for use as a pitch. The parish committee, which had functioned under both Fr. Skelly and Fr. Higgins, and had overseen and organised fund raising to Clear the church debt, supported the club committee. The Land Commission agreed to allocate the field which to this day is known simply as the Park. Caulry made early exists from the Senior Championship in 1936 and 1937. The highlight of the year 1937 was the official opening of The Park a week before the 1937 General Election. The 1938 and 1939 League and Championship were contested with limited success.Following a poor start to the 40's on the playing fields, Caulry defeated The Downs to win the Junior Championship in 1944 county final.1946 was to prove another memorable year for the Caulry club with the Intermediate Championship captured for the first time, with Tyrrellspass being defeated in the county Final in Streamstown.

1950's & 60's
The 1950’s continued in a similar vein to the previous decades with the Junior League and Championship being contested with limited success. 1957 was to prove the highlight of the decade with Caulry defeating Shamrocks 1-10 to 1-05 in the Junior Championship County final, and then continuing their winning ways to annex the 1957 League, and indeed the 1956 League, which was not finished until 1957. In the Intermediate Championship of 1958, Caulry went all the way to the final, only to be defeated by St. Mary’s on a score to 0-05 to 1-11. Caulry enjoyed little success on the fields of play in the early 60’s, yet 1963 was a proud year for the club, when two of it’s players, Padraig Malone and Eamon Daly, were on the Westmeath panel which reached the All-Ireland Minor Final only to be defeated by Kerry. 1966 was to be one of the better years in the decade when Caulry qualified for the Junior football Championship final only to be surprisingly beaten by Killucan on a score of 0-05 to 1-04. St. Finians defeated Caulry in the final of the 1967 Junior “B” Championship final. The year 1969 was to prove another historic year for the club. Caulry started the year in the Intermediate grade which had just been re-introduced. Several good challenge matches were played against top Senior club teams at the time, such as St. Brigids of Roscommon and Offaly’s Ballycumber, in preparation for the Championship. The Caulry side accounted for Ballymore in the first round which was played in Moate. Tubberclair were defeated in the semi-final after a draw and reply. In the county final against Ballynacargy, Caulry got off to a flying start with two early goals and playing with great spirit and determination, went on to win on a scoreline of 2-06 to 0-06.

1970's & 80's
The Mount Temple/Baylin club were back in the intermediate final in 1973, but were beaten 1-07 to 2-06 at Pairc Chiarain, Athlone by Tang. Caulry came back in 1974 to capture the Junior “B” Championship beating Rosemount in the final played in Hogan Park, Moate on a scoreline of 2-02 to 1-02. 1978, the Golden Jubilee of the foundation of the club, saw Caulry’s next appearance in the Intermediate county final, only to go under to St. Mary’s on a 1-05 to 1-06 scoreline.Centenary Year marked the start of a new era of success at underage for the club, the high-light being the appearance of the Under 14s in the Feile na nOg All-Ireland final.1985 was another glorious year for the club with the winning of the Intermediate Championship [Match Report] [See Pic] and the Junior “B” Championship with Clonmellon side St. Pauls being the victims in both county finals. Caulry’s stay in the Senior ranks was to again prove brief and unhappy and they ended the decade relegated to Junior ranks.

1990's
The club’s investment in underage coaching in the 80’s was to pay rich dividend in the 1990’s as a new and youthful junior team swept all before them to win an historic treble at Junior Championship, League and Cup. It looked like the 1990’s was to be a glorious decade. Defeat by eventual champions, Tyrrellspass, in the 1991 Intermediate Championship semi-final did little to diminish the optimism. 1992 saw the Caulry club back in the Intermediate County final. As in the Junior final of 1966, Killucan were again the opposition, and the match was played in Tyrrellspass, as Cusack Park was being re-developed. History unfortunately was again to repeat itself as, in a game Caulry looked to be winning, Killucan put in a storming finish to snatch the title. This heartbreaking defeat sent Caulry on a downward spiral and despite semi-final appearances in 1995 and 1997, the club ended the 1990’s fighting to retain their Intermediate status, which they did with a play-off, ironically against Killucan. Development work continued in The Park throughout the decade, the highlight being the completion of a new stand. The new millennium started with Caulry playing in the Intermediate ranks. However, this was not to last long, as in 2000, the club was relegated to the Junior ranks. However, after great underage success in the club during the 1990’s, there was great optimism that the club would bounce straight back.Caulry played some fantastic football only loosing just once on their way to 3 County finals, Junior Championship, League and Cup. However, this was where the good fortune ended. In the Junior final, Bunbrosna defeated Caulry in a reply on a score of 2-05 to 1-06. In the ACFL Division 3 Final, Caulry were defeated by Killbeggan by 3-09 to 0-09, and in the Junior Cup final, Loughnavelly got the best of Caulry by the narrowest of margins. Like the Junior team, the Junior “B” team in 2001 were very unfortunate to loose the County final in a reply to a very strong Mullingar Shamrocks side. Caulry went the 2002 season undefeated to their fifth Junior Championship title with a highly impressive performance over St. Josephs. In 2002 the combination of Caulry/Castledaly won the Under 21 Premier Final with a win over St. Lomans by 7 points. 2003 proved to be another successful year for the Caulry club as they lifted both the ACFL Division 3 title, and the Junior “B” Championship for the third time in their history .Championship glory was to return to Caulry in 2006 they won the Westmeath Junior Championship for the sixth time. After being relagated from the Intermediate ranks in 2005, the club wasted no time in getting back, as a goal in injury time gave them a 2 point win over Milltown in the Junior Final. The later end of the first decade of the new Millennium it was the Caulry Underage players who grabbed all the headlines. In 2006, the Caulry Under 12s won the Premier Football Championship, and in 2008, Caulry were unfortunate to be beaten in the final of the Under 14 and Minor Division 1 Championship finals. Also in 2008 Caulry had 5 representative on the Westmeath Minor team, and in 2009 Caulry had 4, where Alan Fitzpatrick had the honour of being the Westmeath Minor Captain for the year. And in the last year of the decade, 2009, Caulry won the Westmeath Junior Championship for the seventh time, with a comprehensive win over St. Paul’s.

The 2010's
The new decade started off with a bang, as Caulry made their first semi-final appearances since 1997, after a great win against Tang. However, in the Semi-Final they couldn't get  the better of Bunbrosna. Gary Flanagan also became the first Caulry man since Richie Allen in 1976 (against Wexford) to play Senior Championship football first Westmeath, and Kevin Maguire continued when he started in the Leinster Semi-Final versus Louth. 2010 was also special for Caulry, when the Westmeath Under 16 team, won the Gerry Reilly Memorial Football Tournament, and reached the final of the Fr. Manning Cup, with five Caulry lads on the panel, David Brooks, Evan Roarke, Stephen Woods, Michael McMahon and Andrew O'Sullivan.The St. Ciaran's combination of Caulry, Castledaly and Garrycastle were the highlight of 2011, as they captured the Westmeath minor football championship with a one point win over Ennell Shamrocks (St Malachy's/Ballinagore and Kilbeggan/St Joseph's). In 2012 Caulry reach the Intermediate Championship final for the first time since 1992, but on the occasion succumbed to Castletown/Coole/Finea/Whitehall. 2013 was to prove a similar year for Caulry, reaching the Intermediate Final again, but this time falling to  St. Malachys. But 2013 didn't prove unsuccessful, as Caulry were crowned ACFL Division 2 Champions, and also got the better Coralstown/Kinnegad in the Intermediate Cup Final on a score of 1-11 to 0-10.But all was rectified in 2014, as Caulry when they won the Westmeath Intermediate Championship for the fourth time, with a 3 point win over Rosemount on a score of 1-5 to 0-5.

Football

 * Westmeath Intermediate Football Championship (4) - 1946, 1969, 1985, 2014.
 * Westmeath Junior Football Championship (7) - 1935, 1944, 1957, 1990, 2002, 2006, 2009.
 * Westmeath Junior B Football Championship (3) - 1974, 1985, 2003.
 * Westmeath U-21 Premier Football Champions (1) - 2002
 * Westmeath ACFL Division 2 (1) - 2013.
 * Westmeath ACFL Division 3 (2) - 2003, 2008.
 * Westmeath ACFL Division 5 (1) - 2014.
 * Westmeath Junior Football League (6) - 1930, 1935, 1956, 1957, 1990, 2006.
 * Westmeath Intermediate Cup (1) - 2013.
 * Westmeath Junior Cup (1) - 2006.
 * McGrann Cup (2) - 1933, 1934.

Camogie

 * Westmeath Junior Champions (1) - 1997.
 * Westmeath Junior C Champions (1) - 1988.