Abbeyleix GAA
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| Abbeyleix | |||||||||||||||||
| Mainistir Laoise | |||||||||||||||||
| County: | Laois | ||||||||||||||||
| Nickname: | The Fung | ||||||||||||||||
| Club colours: | Green and Orange | ||||||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Fr Breen Park | ||||||||||||||||
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St Lazerians, Abbeyleix is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in County Laois, Ireland.
The club plays at intermediate level in hurling but has no less than 8 Laois Senior Football Championship titles to its credit, the last of which came in 1919.
Hurling is the main game in the club and Abbeyleix is also the proud holder of 8 Laois Senior Hurling Championship titles, the most recent 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 amalgamtion of the two neighbouring clubs, Abbeyleix and Ballyroan.
The club grounds are called Fr. Breen Park and the club colours are primrose and blue.
Abbeyleix won the 2007 Laois Intermediate Hurling Championship and return to the senior grade in 2008.
