Herlihy first played Gaelic football with the Sam Maguires juvenile team in Dunmanway.
[2] Herlihy made his senior team debut for Dohenys in 2018, while he was still a student at Hamilton High School with whom he played both hurling and Gaelic football.
[5] Herlihy first appeared on the inter-county scene with Cork as a member of the under-17 team that took part in a one-off Munster U17FC in 2017.
[6] He progressed to the under-20 team and scored a goal when Cork beat Kerry to win the Munster U20FC title in 2019.
[7] Herlihy was an unused substitute for Cork's defeat of Dublin in the 2019 All-Ireland under-20 final.