The club was formed in 1887 and entered the Duhallow Championship when it was founded in 1933. Banteer won their first Duhallow Junior Hurling Championship in 1938 defeating Dromahane in the final. The club has won 8 Duhallow Championship finals and lost 13.[citation needed]
In 2018, the club won the Duhallow championship, defeating Kilbrin. Banteer then met Seandun runners-up Brian Dillons in the first round of the 2017 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship. Banteer lost the game, 1-15 to 2-20,[2] to a Brian Dillons side that reached the final that year.
Banteer briefly fielded a football team under their name and won a Duhallow Football Championship but shortly went under the name of Lyre and won 2 more Duhallow Championships.
Camogie
Camogie honours
County Junior C League Winners (1): 2014
County Junior C Championship Winners (1): 2014
County Junior B Championship Winners (1): 2015
County Junior A League Winners (1): 2016
Minor D County Championship Winners (1): 2020
Pitch and facilities
Facilities
Banteer Community Sportsfield and complex is a community owned facility in Banteer. The local GAA club, soccer club and athletics club use these facilities. The complex has a park area, 2 pitches, 2 sets of dressing rooms, several walks around the pond and pitches, a children's playgrounds, a ball wall, a museum/exhibition area with a shop and there is accessibility offered by Banteer railway station.
It is the first community-owned, full size, multi-use astro-turf pitch in Munster.[citation needed]
Main pitch
The original main pitch is usually used for club matches. There is a small stand which can hold up to 200 people and a clubhouse which is under the stand that's adjacent to the pitch. The clubhouse includes 4 changing rooms with showers, an equipment room and a kitchen.
In 2020, the first phase of a €1.5million project to develop a suite of new sporting facilities in the village of Banteer was completed.[citation needed] In February 2020, the Banteer Community Sportsfield Project was awarded a grant under the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund. With this grant, an astro-turf pitch was built over an existing secondary pitch at the sports complex which was usually used for training.[citation needed]
The pitch is lined out for soccer and several soccer clubs in Duhallow use this facility as well as the local soccer club in Banteer.[citation needed]
Notable players
Double Olympic gold medalist Dr. Pat O'Callaghan was a midfielder on the Banteer football team, while he also lined out with the Banteer hurling team. A statue was erected of Dr. "Pat" at the Banteer GAA grounds in January 2007.[citation needed]
