Club History

1956	Foundation of the club
1961	Junior A Football Championship
1962	Intermediate Football Championship
1964	Leinster Leader Cup Winners
1967	Purchase of old hall (& opening)
1968	Leinster Leader Cup Winners
1970	Leinster Leader Cup Winners
1971	Beaten County Finalists
1972	Purchase of site from Mr. Michael Moore
1974	Opening of Hall by Donal Keenan (GAA President)
1978	First Leinster Scor Title
1979	Leinster Leader Cup Winners
1986	Senior B Football Champions
1990	Leinster Scor-na-nOg Novelty Act Winners
1991	Opening of Sean Tierney Park by Peter Quinn (GAA President)
1992	All-Ireland Scor-na-nOg Winners - S.F.C. B Winners
1993	Leinster Leader Cup Winners
1996	40^th Anniversary Dinner in Standhouse Hotel
1998	Ken Doyle represents club & county in the All-Ireland Senior Football Final
1999	Official opening of floodlights by Seamus Aldridge - Beaten County Finalists

Allenwood Football Club was founded in 1956. Prior to that most of the local footballers played with Ballyteague, Robertstown, and the Allen club, which is now defunct. The foundation of the club was the brainchild of Sean Tierney guided by Frank Harte, a former Sligo County Board official who was a camp supervisor at Bord na Mona in Allenwood.

At the initial stages the late Tommy Kenny and Eddie Tierney were prominent officials, but the first official meeting elected:

The Junior Championship was won in 1961 with Joe Doyle as captain and virtually the same team took intermediate honours in 1962 under the captaincy of Mick Donohue. The club spent over a quarter of a century in senior football but never won the ultimate prize. In the late 60's and early 70's six consecutive semi-finals were contested as well as the 1971 county final losing to Carbury.

In 1969 the committee purchased a site from Paddy Doyle and erected a club room and dance hall at Allenwood South which proved a huge success. Jack Roche who was treasurer of the club for over 20 years was prominent in this acquisition.

Much of the work on the old hall, a wooden structure purchased from the army on the Curragh was carried out under the supervision of Nick Walsh, then the carpenter in the E.S.B. station.

The following year eleven acres on the present site were bought from Mr. Michael Moore, grandfather of our senior team selector Tony Moore. Again Sean Tierney and Jack Roche were prominent in this enterprise.

The present hall and dressing rooms were added to the pitch, which had been completed in 1972.

Coincidentally, the Heather Park complex was opened on 6^th October 1974 by Dr. Donal Keenan, Uachtaran Cumann Luthcleas Gael. Subsequently bar facilities, a camogie pitch, schools pitch and floodlights were added bringing our grounds to it's present standard as one of the foremost facilities for Gaelic games in North Kildare.