Abbeyleix GAA

52°54′46.26″N 7°21′09.73″W / 52.9128500°N 7.3527028°W / 52.9128500; -7.3527028Playing kits

Standard colours

Senior Club Championships

	All Ireland	Leinster champions	Laois champions
Football:	-	-	8
Hurling:	-	-	8

Abbeyleix St Lazerians is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Abbeyleix, County Laois, Ireland. The club grounds are called Fr Breen Park and the club colours are Primrose and Blue.

History

The club plays at senior level in hurling and has also won eight Laois Senior Football Championship titles, last of which came in 1919.

Hurling is the main game in the club and Abbeyleix holds 8 Laois Senior Hurling Championship titles, the last of which came in 1949.

In 2006, a number of Abbeyleix 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 and Ballyroan.

Abbeyleix won the 2007 Laois Intermediate Hurling Championship and returned to the senior grade in 2008.

Achievements

Laois Senior Hurling Championships (8) 1927, 1932, 1934, 1939, 1940, 1944, 1945, 1949
Laois Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship (1) 2022
Laois Intermediate Hurling Championship 2007

Notable players

Patrick Lalor
Eugene Fennelly, hurled for Laois^[1]^[2]

References

^ Dunne, Aedín (28 March 2021). "Eugene Fennelly – How an Abbeyleix man played a record 200 holes of golf in one day". Retrieved 12 November 2022.
^ "From the Archives – How Abbeyleix man Eugene Fennelly played a record 200 holes of golf in one day". 3 January 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.