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Leitrim-based Gaelic games club From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ballinamore Seán O'Heslin's Gaelic Athletic Association is a Gaelic football, hurling and ladies' Gaelic football club based in Ballinamore, County Leitrim, Republic of Ireland.[1][2] [3]
| Cumann Sheáin Uí Eslin, Béal an Átha Móir | |||||||||||||
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| Founded: | 1889 | ||||||||||||
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| County: | Leitrim | ||||||||||||
| Nickname: | Ballinamore SOH; Pride of Ballinamore | ||||||||||||
| Colours: | Gold and Green | ||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Seán O'Heslin Memorial Park, Railway Road, Ballinamore | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 54.059690°N 7.793943°W | ||||||||||||
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The club was founded as Ballinamore in January 1889 in McGauran’s Railway Hotel. Unusually for a County Leitrim club, they have always fielded teams in both hurling and Gaelic football.
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.[4][5][6][7] 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.[8]
A ladies' Gaelic football team was founded in 2003.[9] Camogie has been occasionally played, around 1917, revived in 1945–50 and again in the late 1990s; there is at present no camogie team.[10]
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