Oulart–The Ballagh is a

Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sports, amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports o ...

club in

County Wexford County Wexford () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster and is part of the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. Named after the town of Wexford, it was ba ...

, Ireland. The club takes its players primarily from the area around the villages of

Oulart Oulart (, formerly ''Ubhallghort'' - ''"the orchard"''), is a small village in the southeastern corner of Ireland. It is situated in County Wexford just off the R741 regional road halfway between the towns of Gorey to the north and Wexford t ...

and The Ballagh. The club has won the

Wexford Senior Hurling Championship The Wexford Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Pettitt's SuperValu Senior Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition contested by top-tier Wexford GAA clubs. The Wexford GAA, Wexford County Board of the ...

on 13 occasions, most recently in 2016. Their main rivals are

Buffers Alley Buffers Alley is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the villages of Kilmuckridge and Monamolin in County Wexford, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The club fields teams in hurling, Intermediate hurling, Gaelic football and camogie. It co ...

. Former hurlers associated with the club include former Wexford manager Liam Dunne and current Oulart–The Ballagh senior manager

Martin Storey Martin Storey (born 28 September 1964) is an Irish former hurler who played as a centre-forward at senior level for the Wexford county team. Regarded as one of the greatest Wexford players of all-time, Storey made his first appearance for t ...

History

Oulart–The Ballagh were the opponents of Mount Leinster Rangers in the final of the 2013

Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship The Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the AIB Leinster GAA Hurling Senior Club Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Leinster GAA, Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Associa ...

when Mount Leinster Rangers became the first club from Carlow to win the title.

Camogie

Oulart–The Ballagh won the

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship The All-Ireland Club Camogie Championship is a competition for club teams in the Irish women’s field sport of camogie. It is contested by the senior club champions of the leading counties and organised by An Cumann Camógaíochta. Trophy The t ...

in 2011-12 They previously won the Leinster senior club championships in

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

and

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Honours

Hurling

**Winners: 1994, 1995, 1997, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 *

**Runners-Up: 1994, 1995, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 **Winners: 2015 *

Wexford Intermediate Hurling Championship The Wexford Intermediate Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as The Courtyard Ferns Intermediate Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition contested by mid-tier Wexford GAA clubs. It is the 2nd tier of the Wexford GAA ...

**Winners: 1968, 2022 *

Wexford Junior Hurling Championship The Wexford Junior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Permanent TSB Junior Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition contested by lower-tier Wexford GAA clubs. It is the 4th tier of the Wexford GAA hurling ch ...

**Winners: 1967, 2005 *Wexford Under-21 Hurling Championship **Winners: 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2013 **Winners while combined with

: 1965, 1966 *Wexford Minor Hurling Championship **Winners: 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2015 **Winners while combined with

: 1967

Camogie

**Winners: (3) 2011–12, 2014–15, 2020–21 *

Leinster Senior Club Camogie Championship The Leinster Senior Club Camogie Championship is an annual camogie competition organised by the Leinster Council of the Camogie Association and contested by the champion senior clubs in the province of Leinster in Ireland. It is the most prestig ...

**Winners: (8) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2020, 2021

Notable players

* Stephen Doyle * Liam Dunne * Paul Finn * Christy Jacob *

Michael Jacob Michael Jacob (born 2 August 1980) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays in the centre-forward position on the Wexford senior hurling team. Early life Michael Jacob was born in Oulart, County Wexford in 1980. He was born into a family that ...

* Mick Jacob * Rory Jacob *

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* Des Mythen * Adam Nolan * Jimmy Prendergast * Lar Prendergast * David Redmond * Paul Roche * Keith Rossiter * Garrett Sinnott * Darren Stamp *

Una Leacy Una Leacy is a camogie player and winner of two All-Star awards. Leacy's first All-Star came in 2007, the year her two early goals helped Wexford win their first All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship in 32 years, and her second in 2011. She wo ...

* Mary Leacy * Ciara Storey * Karen Atkinson * Colleen Atkinson * Stacey Redmond

References

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wexford/sport/gaa/mythen-the-master-as-oulart-the-ballagh-defeat-close-rivals-40823765.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Oulart-The Ballagh Gaelic games clubs in County Wexford Hurling clubs in County Wexford