At club level he played with Roscrea and was also a member of the Tipperary senior hurling team.
[2] Quealy first played hurling at juvenile and underage levels with Roscrea and won a divisional minor title in 1974.
[3] By this stage he had already joined the Roscrea senior team and won a Tipperary SHC title in 1980.
Quealy first played for Tipperary during a two-year tenure as a dual player at minor level in 1973 and 1974.
Queally was drafted onto the Tipperary senior hurling team in 1977 and won a National League medal in 1979.