Banteer GAA

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.

Banteer defeated Freemount in the duhallow final to claim their seventh title. Banteer lost to Kilworth who went on to win the 2006 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship.

County Championship

Their most recent championship win was against Kilbrin in 2017. Banteer met Seandun runners-up Brian Dillons in the first round of the 2017 Cork Junior A Hurling Championship. Banteer lost an exciting game to a Brian Dillons side that reached the final that year.

County Championship

• Cork Minor B Hurling Championship (1): 1987

• Duhallow Junior A Hurling Championship (8): 1938, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1995, 2006, 2017
• Duhallow Junior A Football Championship (1): 1937
• Duhallow Senior Hurling Cup (0): (Runners-Up in 2021)

• 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

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.

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.

The main pitch has hosted several Duhallow Championship matches and finals, including the 2021 hurling final. The pitch has also hosted a number of matches in the Cork Premier Senior Hurling Championship and the Cork Premier Senior Football Championship, most recently hosting Blackrock and Charleville in 2021.

In 2020, the first phase of a €1.5million project to develop a suite of world-class sporting facilities in the village of Banteer was completed. In February of 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. The new Astro is still used for training and hosts some matches.

The facility is available year-round for use by a range of different sports clubs across Cork county, west Limerick and east Kerry. The pitch is lined out for soccer and a lot of soccer clubs in Duhallow use this facility aswell as the local soccer club in Banteer.

Banteers rivals historically have been Kanturk, especially in the 1980’s but the matches against Kanturk became rare after Kanturk got promoted. In 2016, Kanturk’s second team entered the Duhallow Championship, reviving the rivalry.

Banteer have met Kilbrin in a lot of Duhallow Finals down the years. The rivalry peaked in the 2000’s and 2010’s. 6 of Banteers 13 Duhallow Final loses have came against Kilbrin but won their most recent meeting in the final in 2017.

For a large part of their history, Dromtarriffe did not field a team but the past few years, the rivalry has developed as Dromtarriffe got promoted from Junior B. As the clubs are so close, sometimes they amalgamate underage which makes the fixture more meaningful.