[1][2] Sheehy first played Gaelic football as a schoolboy with Tralee CBS and was a Munster Colleges runner-up in 1956.
He eventually progressed to adult level and won his first Kerry SFC after a 3-09 to 1-10 defeat of Feale Rangers in the 1959 final replay.
It was the first of a record-setting five successive Kerry SFC titles for John Mitchels, with Sheehy lining out in all five triumphs.
He claimed a second successive Munster SFC medal later that season, however, he subsequently lost his place on the starting fifteen.
He returned to the junior team and ended his inter-county career by claiming a Munster JFC medal in 1965.