Ballyroan GAA explained

Club Gaa:Ballyroan Abbey
Irish:Beal Atha an Roine
County:Laois
Province:Leinster
Colours:Sky blue and navy blue
Founded:1887
Pattern B:_navyshoulders
Leftarm:000080
Body:87ceeb
Rightarm:000080
Shorts:000080
Socks:87ceeb
F3:8

Ballyroan Abbey GAA was a Gaelic football club in Ballyroan, County Laois, Ireland.

Founded in 1887, the club colours were sky blue and navy, originally having been royal blue with a dominant white V on the front. The club won eight Laois Senior Football Championship titles, the most recent of which was in 1992.

It also won the second ever Laois Junior A Football Championship in 1907.[1]

In 2006, a number of Ballyroan players were part of the Ballyroan Gaels squad that won the Laois Senior Football Championship. Ballyroan Gaels was an amalgamation of the two neighbouring clubs, Abbeyleix GAA and Ballyroan.

In 2007 the two clubs joined together to form the new Ballyroan Abbey GAA club. The existing Abbeyleix GAA club now solely plays hurling. Ballyroan Abbey still exists today.[2]

Achievements

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Junior A Football 1907.
  2. Web site: Ballyroan-Abbey at their ease as they see off Mountmellick Parish Gaels to book U-20 semi-final place. Laois Today. 2 November 2022. 10 November 2022. Steven. Miller.