The club is a County Monaghan football outfit that competes in the Monaghan/Cavan League and is the most successful club in the North East of Ireland. Their new grounds at Carn, Clones is the highest level football grounds in Ireland at 85m above mean sea level. Association Football (soccer as we know it), first came to Clones in 1876 but according to records, there were no league structures to affiliate to in the area and Clones looked to Fermanagh, Tyrone, and Armagh for friendly games. The actual formation of the club is believed to have been through workers from the Great Northern Railway which arrived in Clones in 1858. It is therefore ironic that if those same workers could come back today and look up to the hill behind the site of the former Railway Station, they would see their club now has two playing pitches on top of it. Clones affiliated to what we now know as the ‘Northern Leagues’ in a properly structured club fashion in 1885.