[citation needed] Newcestown GAA is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club.

A local team, Spartak Mossgrove, was founded in 2015 and have been competing in the West Cork Soccer League since their foundation.

The name of the team (as well as being a play on Spartak Moscow[5]) derives from the local townland 'Mossgrove' just outside the village.

He was ordained as a priest in St Patrick's College, Maynooth, County Kildare, in 1909.

He was expelled from China in 1951, and he returned home in 1953 where he retired to Dalgan Park, Navan, County Meath.