St Kearns Rowing Club - Saltmills | Irish Rowing Clubs | Row HQ

St Kearns Rowing Club is a coastal rowing club based at Saltmills on the Hook Peninsula in County Wexford. A regional planning submission says its crews train year-round on waters around Carrick on Bannow, Cullenstown and Wellingtonbridge.

The club was established in September 2002 to revive rowing on Bannow Bay after an absence of about seven decades. A 2004 community report recorded 116 members within four months of its formation, and the following year's report put membership above 150.

Members built boats as the club developed and began competing around the country. By 2004 St Kearns was staging its third annual regatta on Bannow Bay, making the regatta part of the club's activity from its earliest years.

The tenth annual regatta in 2012 comprised 24 races involving clubs from along the south-east coast. St Kearns crews recorded two wins, 14 second places and five thirds at that meeting.

In 2013 the club won 13 of the 22 finals at its home regatta. A report from that season also records wins in universal boats at Wexford Town, alongside results in several age and crew categories.

The home regatta remains active. A later report records a Saltmills meeting on 9 July attended by Ferrycarrig, Edermine and Killurin, with racing conducted from the club's local base. Rowing Ireland currently lists St Kearns as a Wexford coastal club.