Code: | Hurling |
Sport: | Hurling |
John Killeen | |
Irish: | Seán Ó Cillín |
Birth Date: | 1920 |
Death Date: | July 2005 |
County: | Laois |
Province: | Connacht |
Clubs: | Tynagh Clonad |
Clcounty: | 2 |
Counties: | Galway |
Icposition: | Left wing-forward |
Icyears: | 1944–1954 |
Icallireland: | 0 |
Nhl: | 1 |
Birth Place: | Tynagh, County Galway, Ireland |
Death Place: | Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland |
John Killeen (1920 – June 2005) was an Irish hurler who played as a left wing-forward for the Galway senior team.[1]
Killeen made his first appearance for the team during the 1944 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement a decade later after the 1954 championship. During that time he won a National Hurling League winners' medal.
At club level Duffy began his club career with Tynagh in Galway before later winning two county club championship medals with Clonad in Laois.