Dual county

Dual county (Irish: Contae déach) is a term used in Gaelic games to describe a GAA county that competes at a similar level in both hurling and gaelic football. For example, Cork and Dublin play in Division 1 in both the NHL and NFL, while Laois compete in the second tier of both competitions.

Generally recognised dual counties include:

Only Tipperary and Cork have won both premier men's competitions, the All-Ireland Senior Hurling and All-Ireland Senior Football championships in the same year. Tipperary won both in 1895 and 1900, while Cork won both in 1890 and 1990. Tipperary would today be regarded as primarily a hurling county having not won a major senior football title since 1935 but won the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship in 2011. Dublin have made improvements in hurling since the turn of the millennium, winning the 2011 National Hurling League and the 2013 Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, and are now considered to be a dual county.

Dual County League

The Dual County League (DCL) is a dual county high school athletic conference in District A of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA). The conference serves schools from Middlesex County and Suffolk County

Schools/Divisions

The following eleven schools are a member of the Dual County League.

References

County

A county, abbreviated Cnty. (US) or Co. (UK and Ireland), is a geographical region of a country used for administrative or other purposes, in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French conté or cunté denoting a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count (earl) or a viscount. The modern French is comté, and its equivalents in other languages are contea, contado, comtat, condado, Grafschaft, graafschap, Gau, etc. (cf. conte, comte, conde, Graf).

When the Normans conquered England, they brought the term with them. The Saxons had already established the districts that became the historic counties of England, calling them shires (many county names derive from the name of the county town with the word "shire" added on: for example, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire). The Vikings introduced the term earl (from Old Norse, jarl) to the British Isles. Thus, "earl" and "earldom" were taken as equivalent to the continental use of "count" and "county". So the later-imported term became a synonym for the native English word scir ([ʃiːr]) or, in Modern English, shire. Since a shire was an administrative division of the kingdom, the term "county" evolved to designate an administrative division of national government in most modern uses.

Dual

Dual may refer to: