Clough/Ballacolla

Clough/Ballacolla

Infobox GAA club
club gaa = Clough-Ballacolla
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irish = Cloch-Baile na Coille
county = Laois
nickname =
colours = Blue and Gold
grounds =
founded =
honours =
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leftarm=0000ff |body=0000ff |rightarm=0000ff |shorts=FFFFFF |socks=0000ff
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Clough-Ballacolla is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in County Laois, Ireland.

The club colours are blue and gold and hurling is the main game of the club although gaelic football is also played at junior "B" level.

The club in the locality has changed it's name a number of times and was previously known as Ballygeehan, St. Canices, Cannonswood and Ballacolla.

From 1914 to to 1918, hurling was particulaly strong in the area with the Ballygeehan team winning the Laois Senior Hurling Championship five times in a row, as well as supplying the bulk of the team in 1915 when Laois won it's only All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.

Mick Aherne, a famous member of the Laois senior football and hurling teams of the 1980s, is one of the best known players the club has ever produced.


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