Offaly Intermediate Football Championship 2026: Round 4

What to Expect

Intermediate is the grade every ambitious Offaly club wants out of, because winning it means senior football the following year. Nine teams contest the 2026 championship across two groups. Group 1 holds Gracefield, Edenderry, St Rynagh’s, Kilcormac-Killoughey and Ferbane’s second team, while Group 2 is made up of St Brigid’s of Croghan, Raheen, Walsh Island and Rhode’s second team. The mix of stand-alone clubs and second teams from senior sides gives the grade an unpredictable edge, since the second strings can be strengthened or weakened depending on what the first team is doing that weekend.

Round 4 falls on the Saturday afternoon of the August bank holiday-adjacent championship weekend, with both Group 1 games throwing in at 2:00pm. Gracefield, who play under the name Pairc de Grás, travel to Kilcormac to face Kilcormac-Killoughey, while Edenderry meet St Rynagh’s at the neutral venue of Durrow. Kilcormac-Killoughey are better known as a hurling power, so their football side arriving in the intermediate shake-up is one of the season’s talking points.

Good to Know

• Saturday 15 August: Gracefield v Kilcormac-Killoughey, Kilcormac, throw-in 2:00pm.
• Saturday 15 August: Edenderry v St Rynagh’s, Durrow GAA grounds, throw-in 2:00pm.
• Group 1: Gracefield, Edenderry, St Rynagh’s, Kilcormac-Killoughey, Ferbane second team.
• Group 2: St Brigid’s Croghan, Raheen, Walsh Island, Rhode second team.
• Admission is taken at the gate. Fixtures are published weekly by the county board and can change, so check offaly.gaa.ie on the morning of the game.

Getting There

Kilcormac is on the N52 midway between Birr and Tullamore, about 20 minutes from either town, and the GAA grounds are on the edge of the village with parking on site. Durrow GAA is just north of Tullamore off the N52 towards Kilbeggan, close to Durrow Abbey. Tullamore railway station, on the Dublin Heuston to Athlone and Galway line, is the nearest rail access for the Durrow fixture, with a short taxi ride from there. There is no regular bus service to either ground on a Saturday afternoon, so driving is the practical option.