Rathangan GAA Club is a Gaelic football club based in Rathangan, County Kildare, Ireland. It was founded in 1888 and had many difficulties early on as there were many different local teams in the parish. For the first official games played by Rathangan the prize for the winning team was ½ a barrel of porter!Royal Irish Constabulary records from 1890 show that Rathangan Wolfe Tones had 70 members with officers listed as George Cullen, RH Kelly and Edward Henry while the Coolelan and Dromoreal James Leahys had 50 members, with James Cassidy, Denis Dunne, Thomas Byrne and John Colmey listed as officers. Kilmoney sons of St Patrick also had a club affiliated in 1890 with officers Joseph Foynes and Christy Holohan listed as attending the 1889 convention. Rathangan participated in the reorganisation of 1894.In fact the first official game played by Rathangan was against Thomas Davis's of Dublin in Dawson's Field in 1905. From that first game Rathangan were reasonably successful until the team disbanded in 1910. There was no organised team for the next 7 years until the club was reformed and began to grow in strength. It was just 3 years later when Rathangan got their first taste of major success when in 1920 they won the Junior Championship.With that success under their belt Rathangan started to look for more titles. One of the best periods in Rathangan GAA history was to follow when in 1922 they won their first Leinster Leader Cup. In 1925 they had what a lot of people in Rathangan consider their most outstanding year to date. Not only did the team win the Leinster Leader Cup again but they also added their only Senior Championship.During this period Rathangan had many representatives on the County Kildare team and indeed the Leinster GAA teams. In 1928 Kildare were the first county to win the coveted Sam Maguire Cup. On the panel was a Rathangan native, Joseph O'Reilly, who started playing in goals for Rathangan in 1919.