The club is almost exclusively concerned with the game of hurling.

[citation needed] No records exist regarding hurling in the area prior to that decade, however, local folklore has it that the parish had a hurling team prior to 1880.

[citation needed] Castlegar is one of the most successful clubs in the Galway Senior Hurling Championship, winning 17 titles between 1936 and 1984.

[1] The Castlegar team, that won the 1979–80 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, included:[citation needed]

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