Ballyhegan Davitts GAA Club (also "Ballyhegan Davitts Cumann Luthchleas Gael") 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 located in central

County Armagh County Armagh ( ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It is located in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster and adjoins the southern shore of Lough Neagh. It borders t ...

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Repub ...

. It is affiliated with the

Armagh GAA The Armagh County Board () or Armagh GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland, and is responsible for the administration of Gaelic games in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The county board is resp ...

and is based in the parish of Kilmore which has two ends:

Mullavilly Laurelvale is a village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is beside the smaller village of Mullavilly and the two are sometimes referred to as Laurelvale-Mullavilly or Mullavilly-Laurelvale. The village is three miles south of Portadown and ...

and Stonebridge. It currently competes in

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

, and Ladies Gaelic Football, at Under 8 to Minor levels. Its Senior Men team competes in the

Armagh Junior Football Championship The Armagh Junior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by lower-tier Armagh GAA clubs. The Armagh County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1925. The national media covers the co ...

and in the Junior Division of the All-County League.

History

Ballyhegan Davitts was founded in 1902, which makes it one of the oldest clubs in Armagh.

Football

The Senior team featured in the first-ever

Armagh Intermediate Football Championship The Armagh Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by mid-tier Armagh GAA clubs.Armagh GAA, ''Clár Oifigiúil'' (programme), Intermediate Football Championship Final, 14 October 2012 The national m ...

final, in 1964, losing by a goal to Madden. The Davitts have since won the IFC twice, in 1975 (beating Oliver Plunkett's 0–13 to 0-06) and 1997 (beating Collegeland 1–09 to 1-08).

, ''Clár Oifigiúil, Cluiche Ceannais, Craobh Idirmheánach Peile'' (IFC final programme), 14 October 2012 The Davitts are also four-time winners of the Junior Championship, in 1955, 1961, 1995 and 2017. In 2010, the club's Minor team won the Armagh Division 3 County Championship, becoming the club's first ever under-age All-County Champions.

Honours

Notable players

Paul McGrane Paul McGrane is an Irish Gaelic footballer who played at senior level for the Armagh county team in the 1990s and 2000s. He won an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal, seven Ulster Championships and a National League title with the ...

, All-Ireland winner with Armagh in 2002

Ladies' Gaelic football

Ballyhegan Senior Ladies compete in the Armagh Senior League Division 2 and the Senior Championship.The Ladies Team have won the Junior Championship twice, in 2004 and 2017. In 2022, the Ladies won their first ever Intermediate Championship, defeating Mullabrack 6–20 to 1-07.

Culture

The club offers Irish language classes for all ages.News
section of club website

Facilities

The clubrooms host a wide variety of community events.

References

External links

Ballyhegan GAC
website
Ballyhegan
on Armagh GAA website Gaelic games clubs in County Armagh Gaelic football clubs in County Armagh {{Ulster-GAA-club-stub