County Championships in Senior, Intermediate, Junior and Juvenile hurling. In later years a Camogie Club was set up and three County Titles have been won by this club. The hurling team regraded to intermediate at the end of 2003. It took them until the 2015 season to return to senior. Transport Ballyhea is on the main Limerick–Cork bus route with a stop near the parish church. The nearby town of Charleville has a station on Cork-Dublin railway line (formerly the Great Southern Line). Amenities Ballyhea has a series of marked mountain walk ways at Ballinboola and is part of the Ballyhoura Trail. There is a large artificial lake (40 acres), created by the extraction of gravel, with a range of wildlife; it is privately owned. The greater Ballyhea area has a number of businesses, including a Lidl warehouse on the N20 at Pike Cross, and Dawn Meats at Ardnageehy. Ballyhea Community Council, which evolved in the 1970s from a Munitir Na Tíre group, organises a number of activities locally, including an annual Christmas meal for the elderly of the parish. A group of parents also came together in 2000 to form the Ballyhea Pre-school Group. Bank bailout marches Ballyhea residents were noted for their weekly marches, beginning in February 2011, in protest against taxpayer-funded bailouts of Irish banks. Activist Diarmuid O'Flynn was a spokesperson for the residents, and was involved in documenting bank bailout payments as they happened. The final march took place on 8 March 2020. See also List of towns and villages in Ireland References Civil parishes of County Cork Townlands of County Cork