Dohenys is the Gaelic football

Gaelic football

Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...

 and Hurling

Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...

 Club in the town

Town

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 of Dunmanway

Dunmanway

Dunmanway is a town in County Cork, in the southwest of Ireland. It is the geographical centre of the region known as West Cork. It is probably best known as the birthplace of Sam Maguire, an Irish Protestant republican, for whom the trophy of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship is...

, County Cork

County Cork

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, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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. It won its only Cork Senior Club Football Championship

Cork Senior Club Football Championship

The Cork Senior Football Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Clubs in County Cork, Ireland...

 in 1897.
Other titles won include 2 Cork Intermediate Football Championship

Cork Intermediate Football Championship

This is the Second tier Gaelic football team competition organized by the Cork GAA board. This championship was discontinued after 1938 because of a lack of clubs. From 1939 until 1964 any team that won the Junior County Football Final could go straight to Senior. The Intermediate Championship was...

s in 1972 and 1995, and 3 Cork Junior Football Championship

Cork Junior Football Championship

The Cork Junior Football Championship is a Gaelic football competition in Cork. The competition was originally established in 1895 as a competition for second teams of clubs playing in the Cork Senior Football Championship. This is the fourth level of football clubs, under Senior, Premier...

s in 1935, 1966, and 1993. In 2007, the club won its first ever county hurling

Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...

 championship when it won the Cork Junior B Hurling Championship

Cork Junior B Hurling Championship

The Cork Junior B Hurling Championship is a hurling competition played by Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Cork. This is the fourth and lowest tier of county hurling competitions organized by Cork. The competition is confined to clubs who play solely at this level. Thus the second and third...

. The club is part of the Carbery

Carbery GAA

Carbery GAA are a divisional team from the south-west division of County Cork, Ireland, in ancient Carbery. They compete in the Cork Senior Football Championship. They competed in the Cork Senior Hurling Championship up to and including 2010. They did not enter a hurling team in 2011...

 division of Cork. The Sam Maguire Cup

Sam Maguire Cup

The Sam Maguire Cup, often called The Sam , is the name of the cup that is awarded to winners of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the premier "knockout" competition in the game of Gaelic football played in Ireland...

 which is presented to the All-Ireland winning football team each year is named after Dunmanway's most famous son, Sam Maguire who is buried in St. Mary's Graveyard.

Honours

• Cork Senior Football Championship Winners 1897 Runners-Up 1898, 1903, 1975, 2006
• Cork Intermediate Football Championship
  Cork Intermediate Football Championship
  This is the Second tier Gaelic football team competition organized by the Cork GAA board. This championship was discontinued after 1938 because of a lack of clubs. From 1939 until 1964 any team that won the Junior County Football Final could go straight to Senior. The Intermediate Championship was...
  
   Winners 1972, 1995 Runners-Up 1923, 1936, 1938, 1969
• Cork Junior Football Championship
  Cork Junior Football Championship
  The Cork Junior Football Championship is a Gaelic football competition in Cork. The competition was originally established in 1895 as a competition for second teams of clubs playing in the Cork Senior Football Championship. This is the fourth level of football clubs, under Senior, Premier...
  
   Winners 1935, 1966, 1993 Runners-Up 1898, 1959, 1965
• Cork Junior B Hurling Championship
  Cork Junior B Hurling Championship
  The Cork Junior B Hurling Championship is a hurling competition played by Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Cork. This is the fourth and lowest tier of county hurling competitions organized by Cork. The competition is confined to clubs who play solely at this level. Thus the second and third...
  
   Winners 2006 Runners-Up 1996
• Cork Minor Premier Championship Winners 2010
• Cork Minor A Football Championship
  Cork Minor A Football Championship
  The Cork Minor A Football Championship is a Gaelic football competition for Gaelic Athletic Association players under the age of 18 in Cork, Ireland. This championship was begun in 1992 when the strongest minor football teams were placed in the Premier Division of the championship...
  
   Runners-Up 1999
• West Cork Junior Football Championship Winners 1927, 1931, 1935, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1992, 1993 Runners-Up 1928, 1930, 1940, 1949, 1950, 1963, 1970, 1990
• West Cork Junior Hurling Championship Winners 1958, 1959, 1963 Runners-Up 1936, 1937, 1938, 2010
• West Cork Junior B Hurling Championship Winners 1996, 1998 Runners-Up 1953, 1984, 2004
• West Cork Junior C Football Championship Winners 1977, 1978, 1979, 1986, 1987 Runners-Up 1984, 1985, 1988, 1998
• West Cork Junior C Hurling Championship Runners-Up 1994
• West Cork Junior D Football Championship Winners 1998 Runners-Up 2005
• West Cork Minor A Hurling Championship (as Sam Maguires) Winners 1956
• West Cork Minor A Football Championship (as Sam Maguires) Winners 1942, 1944, 1978,1998, 1999, 2003 Runners-Up 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1986, 1989
• West Cork Minor B Hurling Championship (as Sam Maguires) Winners 1990, 1994, 1996, 2003, 2009 Runners-Up 1982, 1985, 2006
• West Cork Minor C Hurling Championship (as Sam Maguires) Runners-Up 2001
• West Cork Under-21 Football Championship Winners 1969, 1970, 1971, 2000 Runners-Up 1974, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003
• West Cork Under-21 B Hurling Championship Winners 1995, 2008 Runners-Up 1991, 1996, 2009, 2011
• West Cork Under-21 C Hurling Championship Runners-Up 2002, 2003

Famous players

• Éamonn Young
  Éamonn Young
  Cmdt. Éamonn Young was an Irish sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with the Doheny’s, Collins and Army clubs and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team from 1942 util 1953. Young is regarded as Cork’s greatest-ever player....
  
  
• Kevin Murray
• Michael O'Donovan
• Paul Deane
• Mark Farr
• Patrick McCarthy
• Ger McCarthy

County Representatives

With Maria Immaculata Community College based in the town of Dunmanway, there have been a numerous amount of young hurlers representing Cork in the All-Ireland VEC Championship. The Hurlers in recent years included Patrick McCarthy, Tadgh O'Leary, Jerry McCarthy, Joe O'Sullivan, Brian McCarthy, Alan Sheehan (all of whom, won Munster and All-Ireland Medals with Cork VEC) and other players from outside the Doheny area. For the Cork footballers, it has been Sean Lordan, Patrick McCarthy, Jerry McCarthy, Brian McCarthy, Michael Milner, Alan Sheehan, Tom Collins, David Collins and Ger Lynch to recent years.