Local monuments include the ruined Clonmore Castle, Rath Gall hilltop ring fort,[2] Labbanasighe megalithic tomb in Moylisha and Saint Finian's monastery at Aghowle.

After the 1921 War of Independence treaty, the team restarted and in 1924 it was beaten by Rathdangan in the County Junior Football Final.

The club eventually fizzled out due to a decrease of young players and emigration from Killinure and Coolkenno.

[citation needed] The present club in Coolkenno was founded in November 1980, after a meeting in the Crablane pub by local Gaelic football enthusiasts.

It took a seventeen years for major success when the club won its first county title, the Junior B Football Championship, in Baltinglass in December 1997.