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• The Heights of Gaelic Games: Analysing Elevation Data of GAA Pitches Worldwide
  9 March 2025 · 2 min read

  GAA pitches range from 3 metres below sea level in Amsterdam to 1,741 metres in Montana. An elevation analysis of nearly 2,000 pitches worldwide.

• Pitch Finder 6.0
  25 February 2024 · 1 min read

  The underlying dataset is now published openly on GitHub. Also presented at the Q1 Dublin Data Meetup.

• Most Remote GAA Pitches in Ireland
  13 August 2023 · 3 min read

  Which GAA pitch is the most isolated in each county? From Donegal's Pettigo at 18 km to Wexford's St. Mogue's, the most remote pitches across all 32 counties.

• Pitch Finder 5.0
  13 August 2023 · 1 min read

  Data used by Safe Routes to School, Tufts University, Trinity College Dublin, and the ESB for GIS mapping.

• Pitch Finder 4.0
  29 January 2021 · 1 min read

  Pitch Finder goes global — now covering pitches in Europe, Great Britain, Asia, Australasia, and South America.

• Pitch Finder 3.0
  28 December 2020 · 1 min read

  Map migrated to Tableau Public with new filtering for clubs, pitches, and counties. Data also used to aid the Government COVID response.

• Pitch Finder 2.0
  28 January 2018 · 1 min read

  The site went viral — 21,000 map views, a Sportsjoe.ie article, 550 Reddit upvotes, and thousands of Instagram likes.

• Pitch Finder v1.1
  4 November 2017 · 1 min read

  Added county grounds across Ireland and Google Maps directions to every location.

• Pitch Finder v1.0
  27 October 2017 · 1 min read

  First release of GAA Pitch Finder — all four provinces, club pitches across Ireland, and the site logo.