Barrowhouse GAA
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| Founded: | 1919 | ||
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| County: | Laois | ||
| Nickname: | The House | ||
| Club colours: | Black and White | ||
| Coordinates: | 52°56′52.04″N 6°59′39.23″W / 52.9477889°N 6.9942306°WCoordinates: 52°56′52.04″N 6°59′39.23″W / 52.9477889°N 6.9942306°W | ||
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Barrowhouse GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in County Laois located in the townland of Barrowhouse which is close to the border with County Kildare near the town of Athy in the Republic of Ireland. The club was established in 1919. The club currently has a new pitch in the townsland of Cowpark.
Barrowhouse won numerous Laois county championships in the past. The roll of honour includes three Laois Intermediate Football Championships (1980, 1985 and 1992) and two Laois Junior Football Championships (1946 and 1974).
The most recent of their championship successes occurred in 1992 when they won both the Laois Intermediate Football Championship and the Division 2 Laois All-County Football League. Barrowhouse have also won the Division 4 Laois All-County Football League in 2006 and Division 3 Laois All-County Football League in 2007 and 2012.
In 2006, the St Joseph's-Barrowhouse underage combination team won the Laois Minor "B" Football Championship and in 2008 the Minor "A" league title and Laois Under 21 Football Championship. The club won its second such title in 2011 . The St Joseph's-Barrowhouse combination fields teams from Under 12 to Under 21.
In 1995 they qualified for the quarter finals of the Laois Senior Football Championship defeating Ballylinan in a replay before being eventually knocked out by Stradbally.