Open GAA Pitch Dataset
GAA Pitch Finder publishes an open GAA club and pitch locations dataset maintained by Ryan McGuinness. It contains 1,989 GAA pitch records worldwide, including club names, pitch names, coordinates, directions, elevation, rainfall data, and regional groupings.
Dataset generated from the canonical data revision dated .
View current dataset health, provenance, and known limitations.
The dataset powers the public GAA Pitch Finder map, club pages, county pages, and directions pages. It is available for research, education, community projects, and other useful GAA mapping work.
Downloads
These stable URLs always serve the latest published dataset version.
Dataset details
- Records
- 1,989
- Dataset version
- 2026.08.06
- Schema version
- 1.0.0
- Generation date
- Coordinates
- WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
- Attribution
- GAA Pitch Finder by Ryan McGuinness (https://gaapitchfinder.com)
Field reference
The CSV stores blank optional values as empty strings. GeoJSON uses JSON numbers for numeric fields and null for blank optional values; every feature is a Point with coordinates ordered longitude, latitude.
| Field | Type | Nullability | Units or values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
File |
string | Required | Values: Asia, Australasia, Canada, Europe, Great Britain, Ireland, Middle East, South America, USA | Top-level coverage region used to partition the source dataset. |
Club |
string | Required | — | Club or team name. |
Pitch |
string | Optional | — | Pitch, ground, or community field name. |
Code |
string | Optional | Values: Football, Hurling, Mixed | Primary Gaelic games code where it is known. |
Latitude |
number | Required | decimal degrees Range: -90 to 90 |
Latitude of the pitch point in WGS 84 decimal degrees. |
Longitude |
number | Required | decimal degrees Range: -180 to 180 |
Longitude of the pitch point in WGS 84 decimal degrees. |
Province |
string | Required | — | Province or comparable broad regional grouping. |
Country |
string | Required | — | Country name. |
Division |
string | Required | — | GAA division, county board, or overseas administrative grouping. |
County |
string | Required | — | County, state, division, or local grouping used for browsing. |
Directions |
string | Required | URI | Google Maps directions URL for the canonical pitch coordinates. |
Twitter |
string | Optional | URI | Club social profile URL; legacy records may contain X or Instagram URLs. |
Elevation |
number | Optional | metres Range: -500 to 9000 |
Estimated pitch elevation above mean sea level. |
annual_rainfall |
number | Optional | millimetres per year Range: 0 to 12000 |
Estimated mean annual rainfall at the pitch location. |
rain_days |
number | Optional | days per year Range: 0 to 366 |
Estimated annual number of days with precipitation. |
Wikipedia |
string | Optional | URI | Reviewed Wikipedia URL for the club where available. |
Coverage
- Ireland — all 32 counties
- Great Britain
- North America (USA and Canada)
- Rest of Europe
- Australasia
- Asia
- Middle East
- South America
Compatibility
The download URLs remain stable and always point to the latest published data. The schema uses semantic versioning: optional additions and new controlled values are backward-compatible, while renamed or removed fields, type changes, tighter nullability, a new coordinate reference system, or a different geometry type require a new major schema version.
Consumers should ignore unknown fields and should not assume controlled vocabularies are permanently closed. The exact machine-readable policy is included in the JSON schema.
Usage and attribution
The dataset is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). If you use it in your work, please credit GAA Pitch Finder by Ryan McGuinness and link to https://gaapitchfinder.com.
View source and revision history on GitHub.
For corrections, missing pitches, attribution questions, or data enquiries, contact gaapitchfinder@gmail.com.