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The club being located in County Kildare competes in the County Kildare GAA board league and cup system. They were Kildare club of the year in 1977. In 2012, Monasterevin G.F.C. won their first Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship.

Monasterevin athletic sports predate the GAA, having been first staged in a field adjoining the Railway Station in 1880. Monasterevin were among the first clubs to affiliate to Kildare GAA and won the first three Kildare hurling championships.

Originally better known as a hurling club Monasterevin stormed to a football-hurling double in 1890. Inspirational figures of this era included Paddy Molohan and Ned Lawlor. A second Senior Championship was added in 1911 (defeating Roseberry, 2-1 to 0-2), only to be denied a third senior crown by Roseberry in the 1912 final.

Monasterevin were not to win a Senior Championship again until 1977 though they won Senior Leagues [Leinster Leader Cup] in 1973 and 1974, along with many underage titles. Prominent players include Liam Gleeson and Bob Harrison (Kildare Player of the Year for 1976) and Hugh Hyland who captained the County Senior Team in the Leinster Final of 1978. Monasterevin regained Senior status in 2012, beating Raheens in the final.