Kilbrittain GAA club was founded in 1904. It has been primarily a hurling club throughout its history, though it did play in the Cork Junior Football Championship final in 1926. Hurling has always been the first sport in the parish. From the beginning, especially in the 1920s, the club had some successes in the South-West division, winning 6 titles in a row and again in 1930, 1938, 1940, 1941 and 1942.[citation needed] In 1978, after a lapse of 36 years, the club won the Flyer Nyhan Cup or the South-West Junior Hurling Championship. The club were beaten by Kinsale in the subsequent Cork Junior Hurling Championship.[citation needed]
In 1984, Kilbrittain reached the final of the Cork Junior Hurling Championship only to be defeated by Midleton. The following year, 1985, Kilbrittain defeated Cobh in the final to win its first county title in 81 years.[citation needed]
In 1994, the Carbery divisional team won the Cork Senior Hurling Championship title with a number of Kilbrittain players on the team, 5 playing on the team with 2 subs.
After competing 10 years in the Intermediate grade and being runners up in 3 county finals (1988, 1989, 1993) Kilbrittain won the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship in 1995. In 1996, Kilbrittain became a senior hurling club. In 2010 Kilbrittain won the Cork County intermediate A hurling championship.
West Cork Under 21 B Hurling Championship Winners (1) 2021
West Cork Under-21 B Football Championship Winners (1) 2011 Runners-Up 1986, 2002
West Cork Under-21 C Football Championship Winners (1) 2014[1]
Notable players
Owen Sexton, Cork Minor Football All-Ireland winner 1993, Cork U21 and senior footballer from 1996 to 2006. Captained Cork in 2005. County Senior Football winner with Carbery in 2004. Captain of Kilbrittain Junior B Football County winners in 2009, Intermediate hurling county winner in 2010.
