It performs a supervisory and appeal role for the five County Boards within the province (listed below).

Anomalously, it also exercises its functions for an additional two county boards that are not located in the province: London and New York.

Teams from these administrative areas play in the Connacht Senior Football Championship.

Players from the following county teams represent Connacht: Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo.

The Connacht provincial junior camogie team has won the Gael Linn Trophy on four occasions in 1981, 1995, 2006 and 2009.