GAA Miniature Turf Crest Plaque

Miniature Turf Handcrafted Plaque featuring the crest of the GAA.. Carved and sculpted from 5000 year of Irish Turf. The GAA is the regulatory body for Ireland's native sports, hurling, football, camogie and handball. This plaque is particularly symbolic as our national game, hurling, is believe do originate from ancient times.

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GAA Crest Turf Miniature Plaque

• Made in Ireland
• 5000 year old Irish Peat Turf
• Hurling is the national sport of Ireland 
• The GAA was founded in 1884
• The All-Ireland Football and Hurling finals take place in September each year

Dimensions

• Diameter: 3" inches

GAA

The Gaelic Athletic Association is an organisation primarily focussed on promoting Gaelic games - traditional Irish sports, mainly hurling and Gaelic football, but also handball and rounders. The organisation also promotes Irish music, dance, and the Irish language. It is the largest and most popular organisation in Ireland with some 800,000 members out of the island's population of almost 6 million.

Gaelic football and hurling are the most popular activities promoted by the organisation, and the most popular sports in the country. The women's versions of these games, Ladies Gaelic Football and Camogie, are organised by the independent but very closely linked associations of Ladies' Gaelic Football Association and Camogie Association of Ireland respectively.

The highlight of the GAA calender is the All-Ireland Football and Hurling finals which take place in September each year.

Ireland 5000 Years Ago

In Ireland the Great Elk wandered through the forests and mountains, it was a land of sweeping mists, gentle rain and  soft sunlight.

A land of pagan carvings and mysterious rituals.

A land when the soothing lilt of the harp floated over cool crystal lakes and rivers.

It was a time of Cu Chulainn and Queen Maeve and the Red Branch Knights.

This was, indeed the Celtic Twilight.

Today we have captured the very essence of that era.

Turf from that golden age has been excavated and hand carved to create our unique rang of turf ornaments