JK Brackens GAA Club
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| Founded: | 1992 | ||||||||
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| County: | Tipperary | ||||||||
| Colours: | Black and White | ||||||||
| Grounds: | Páirc Shíleáin | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 52°47′56.50″N 7°50′08.68″W / 52.7990278°N 7.8357444°W | ||||||||
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JK Brackens is a Gaelic Athletic Association club serving the parish of Templemore, Clonmore and Killea in County Tipperary, Ireland.
JK Brackens compete in the county Tipperary GAA and Mid-Tipperary divisional competitions and is one of only two clubs in Tipperary that consistently complete at senior level in both the Hurling and Gaelic football. The club is also nationally renowned as one of the country's leading GAA Scór clubs. In 2025, the club's official website recognises the club fields 21 teams from under 6 up to senior grades and has approximately 250 playing members.
The club is named after Joseph Kevin Bracken, "the radical stonemason from Templemore", who was one of the seven founding members of the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1884. Furthermore, Bracken was the first Chairman of the Tipperary County Board, he served as vice-president of the GAA, and of the original seven signatories, he was the longest serving member on the GAA national executive. He was an elected representative and chairman of Templemore Urban District Council, and was a member of the oath-bound republican organisation the IRB (Irish Republican Brotherhood).
He is the son of Patrick Bracken (1830–1897) and Anne Bracken (née Hennessy; 1828–1893) of Templemore, Co. Tipperary. Father Patrick played a pre-GAA form of Irish football as early as 1847 for the Templemore citizen's team playing against the Templemore Garrison barrack team, alongside John Kidd Guest (1831-1871), ex Templemore man, and a person linked to the embryonic formation of the North Melbourne Football Club.
JK Brackens GAA club is one of only three GAA clubs to be named after both a founding member of the GAA, and a local parishioner.