Clare Senior Hurling Championship

The Clare Senior Hurling Championship (abbreviated to Clare SHC) is an annual GAA club competition organised by the Clare County Board for the top sixteen hurling clubs in County Clare, Ireland. It is the most prestigious competition in Clare hurling. The Clare SHC final is usually held in the month of October at Cusack Park in Ennis.

The Clare SHC and Clare SFC begin once both the Clare hurling team and Clare football team have concluded their respective inter-county campaigns. Both championships run concurrently on opposite weekends to cater for dual clubs competing in both codes.

In 2012 the Clare County Board decided that from 2014 onwards the Clare SHC would become a sixteen-team competition. This meant that five clubs would lose their senior status and be relegated down to the second-tier intermediate level. However, due to the overwhelming success of both the Clare Senior and Under-21 inter-county squads in 2013, this decision was postponed for twelve months. 2014 saw the relegation of Broadford, Doora-Barefield, Ruan, Scariff and Wolfe Tones down to intermediate for 2015.

In 2014 Cratloe completed a historic first Clare Senior Championship "Double" for their club, and the first in Clare for eighty-five years since the famous Ennis Dalcassians in 1929.

In 2025 Éire Óg completed a historic first Clare Senior Championship "Double" for the town of Ennis in ninety-six years and emulate their predecessors Ennis Dalcassians from 1890, 1911, 1914, and 1929.

The winners of the Clare SHC each year are presented with the Canon Hamilton Cup, and represent Clare in the Munster Senior Club Hurling Championship and possibly the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship as the Clare champions.

The current (2025) champions and holders of the Canon Hamilton Cup are Éire Óg who defeated their neighbours Clooney-Quin by 0-17 to 0-12 at Zimmer Biomet Páirc Chíosóg in Ennis, to win their first title in thirty-five years, and sixteenth overall.