Ballinamore Seán O'Heslin's Gaelic Athletic Association is a

Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

hurling Hurling (, ') is an outdoor Team sport, team game of ancient Gaelic culture, Gaelic Irish origin, played by men and women. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goa ...

and

ladies' Gaelic football Ladies' Gaelic football () is an Irish team sport for women. It is the women's equivalent of Gaelic football. Ladies' football is organised by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association. Two teams of 15 players kick or hand-pass a round ball toward ...

club based in

Ballinamore Ballinamore (, meaning "mouth of the big ford") is a small town in the south-east of County Leitrim in Ireland. Etymology , corrupted ''Bellanamore'', means "town at the mouth of the big ford", so named because it was a main crossing (ford) o ...

County Leitrim County Leitrim ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht and is part of the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the village of Leitrim, County Leitr ...

Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

History

The club was founded as ''Ballinamore'' in January 1889 in McGauran’s Railway Hotel. Unusually for a

club, they have always fielded teams in both

and

. Local schoolteacher Seán O'Heslin was a driving force behind the club in its early years; he died in 1942; Sean O’Heslin Memorial Park opened in 1952 and the club was renamed ''Ballinamore Seán O'Heslin's'' in his honour in 1953. The club won twenty Leitrim Senior Football Championships between 1913 and 1990, but have only won it once since then, in 2021. O'Heslin's also reached the final of the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship on four occasions — 1968, 1973, 1986 and 1990 — losing each time. A

team was founded in 2003.

Camogie Camogie ( ; ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game "hurling" (which is played by men only), it is organised ...

has been occasionally played, around 1917, revived in 1945–50 and again in the late 1990s; there is at present no camogie team.

Honours

Gaelic football

* Leitrim Senior Football Championship (21): 1913, 1922, 1930, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1939, 1956, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1979, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1990, 2021 * Leitrim Senior Football League (12): 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1988, 1989 * Leitrim Junior Football Championship (3): 1933, 1939, 1997 * Leitrim Under-21 Football Championship (7): 1972, 1979, 1987, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 (2005–09 as ''Oughteragh Gaels'', a union with Aughnasheelin) * Leitrim Minor Football Championship (24): 1929, 1935, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1958 1959, 1960, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1984, 1985, 1993, 2002, 2006, 2011, 2014, 2017 (1993–2006 as ''Oughteragh Gaels'', a union with Aughnasheelin; 2014 as ''St. Felim's'', a union with Aughavas)

Ladies' football

* Leitrim Intermediate Ladies' Football Championship (1): 2014 (as ''Oughteragh Gaels'', a union with Aughnasheelin)

Hurling

Leitrim Senior Hurling Championship The Leitrim Senior Hurling Club Championship is an annual hurling competition contested by top-tier Leitrim GAA clubs. The winners of the championship qualify to the Connacht Junior Club Hurling Championship. St Mary's GAA (Leitrim), Carrick H ...

(3): 1971, 1987, 2015 (1971 as ''St Bridget’s'', a union with Aughnasheelin) * Leitrim Minor Hurling Championship (13): 1967, 1971, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014 (1971 as ''St Bridget’s'', a union with Aughnasheelin)

Notable players

* Columba Cryan:

Railway Cup The GAA Interprovincial Championship () or Railway Cup (''Corn an Iarnróid'') is the name of two annual Gaelic football and hurling competitions held between the provinces of Ireland. The Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster GAA teams are co ...

-winner (1957, 1958)

References

External links

Official website
* Gaelic games clubs in County Leitrim Gaelic football clubs in County Leitrim Hurling clubs in County Leitrim Ballinamore {{Connacht-GAA-club-stub