Ballylanders GAA
| CLG Baile an Londraigh | |||||||||
| Founded: | 1888 | ||||||||
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| County: | Limerick | ||||||||
| Nickname: | Bally | ||||||||
| Colours: | Gold and Green | ||||||||
| Grounds: | Kilfinane Road, Ballylanders | ||||||||
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Ballylanders GAA (Irish: CLG Baile an Londraigh) is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) located in the parish of Ballylanders/Knockadea in County Limerick. The club was founded in 1888 and is solely a Gaelic football club as hurlers from the parish play with neighbouring Glenroe. They won the County Senior Football Championship on four occasions in 1917, 1999, 2007 and 2014.
Ballylanders is situated 45 km from Limerick City in the southeast of the county at the foot of the Galtee Mountains. Footballers from the neighbouring parish of Glenroe/Ballyorgan also play with the club. Neighbouring clubs include sister club Glenroe, Garryspillane, Galbally, Galtee Gaels and Mitchelstown in County Cork.
Before the foundation of the GAA in 1884, Gaelic football was widely played in southeast County Limerick. There is an account and photograph of a Ballylanders Shamrocks team that played Aherlow. Bally won the County Junior Football Championship in 1911 beating Castlemahon in the final. The cup stayed in the parish for six years as the County Board didn't run the championship during the First World War. Meanwhile, football grew rapidly in the parish and Ballylanders won their first County Senior Football Championship in 1917 beating Commercials. Several Ballylanders players were on the Limerick team that lost to Dublin in the same year.
During those early days of the GAA, Frank Dineen, a native of Ballylanders, gave a great contribution to the GAA. He was President from 1885-1898 and was General Secretary from 1898-1901. Dineen famously bought a site in 1913 on Jones's Road that was later to become Croke Park. Ballylanders won a Junior Championship in 1920 and were beaten in the 1925 Senior final by Oola. The club were again Junior champions in 1933 beating Ahane but football was in decline at this time. in 1952 they won another Junior title beating Oola but again failed to build on it lasting just two years at senior. In the 1970s Bally were senior and succeeded in winning a South Championship.
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