The club crest depicts this rural geographical area showing the Beacon to the south and Kilcoe castle to the west with the Ilen flowing between and the sea beyond.

The following season, the club entered additional teams, in the under 21 and junior B category, with the under 21s losing the SW championship final.

The Junior B championship was won again that year, and the team reached its first county final, but lost to Abbey Rovers.

It was a setback to lose the Cork Junior Football Championship final in 1999 by a point to Youghal, but 2001 yielded dividends capturing the title by overcoming Kinsale.

The first year up in the intermediate grade, 2002, was a successful one, winning the county league title and also the All Ireland junior 7 a-side.

[citation needed] In the late 1970s the club, in tandem with Aughadown Community Council, started to develop a playing pitch in Church Cross which was completed in 1982.