Thomas Davis GAC had its origins in the Gaelic Revival movement of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

Thomas Davis won the 1944 South Armagh Junior Football Championship with a win over Jonesboro.

[5] Despite folding in the late 1950s, the present club was re-established in 1982 and won the Armagh Junior Football Championship in the same year, defeating Clonmore by 2–9 to 1–6.

From 1982 until the late 1990s, the majority of home games were played at Carnagat Road, until the land was handed back to the church and Rathore School was built.

In 2013, the club moved to a purpose built facility on Doran's Hill with full sized pitch and clubrooms.