Top of the All-Ireland senior club hurling title honour roll with eight. Only denied a historic three-in-a-row by a late Ballygunner goal earlier this year.
Five-in-a-row Kilkenny champions and aiming for four in a row in Leinster, in all likelihood five if Covid hadn't intervened. Some of the brightest stars in the game like TJ Reid and Adrian Mullen.
Ballyhale Shamrocks are a 'super club' of a different kind, one that has massively over-achieved given their playing group of less than 180 members.
That astonishing record of success makes them hot favourites to win a 13th Leinster decider against Dubln's first time-finalists Kilmacud Crokes on Sunday, despite their opponents' 2,900 players across both codes.
"It's a small place and there's nothing here but a hurling pitch," Shamrocks and Kilkenny forward Eoin Cody tells RTÉ Sport.
"It's something that's been handed down through generations. When you're here in Ballyhale all you do is go over to the hurling pitch and hurl.
"It was Ballyhale’s 50th anniversary this year, if you go back to the team that hurled the first game I would imagine you’d see Holdens, Shefflins, Codys, Corcorans, Reids. At one stage, I think there were seven Fennelly brothers there.
"We're a heap of families. The team is full of brothers, cousins. The Mullens and Fennellys are cousins. Myself and Evan [Shefflin] are cousins. The Corcorans are cousins, the Butlers. We’re a team and a tight-knit family.
"That’s the tradition put down through generation to generation. We learn from TJ [Reid], TJ learned from Henry [Shefflin, Cody's uncle]. Henry from the Fennellys. Hopefully we can pass it on to the next group of lads, the likes of Niall Shortall and Killian Corcoran, who made the step up to senior this year.
"That’s what it’s about in Ballyhale. Leaving the jersey in a better place than you got it."
Already an established inter-county forward at the age of 22, Cody credits time spent in the company of greats like Shefflin, Michael and Colin Fennelly and TJ Reid for his early impact on the game.
"I think that gives us an extra edge in Ballyhale," he says. "You're going to the pitch training as a 16-year-old and TJ is there, Michael Fennelly, Henry. You learn looking at these lads.
"It's a gift. I’m so lucky that way. It’s an education really. You’re going training and learning so much, day-in and day-out just watching TJ. Whether it’s taking frees, catching ball, head-up hurling, his 20-yard passing, his workrate, attitude, work in the gym. It’s unreal.
"Then it’s a bonus when you’re a clubmate, you’re obviously closer. The whole family know TJ personally. He has tips for me, if he thinks I can improve some way or he thinks I’m not going well, he’ll focus me or drive me on. He’s brilliant that way.
"I've been lucky to be hurling with Kilkenny the last few years and had great success with Ballyhale.
"I look to the lads on my left and right, TJ, Colin, Joey [Holden], I take as much as I can from these outstanding hurlers, outstanding people, all their good attributes and I hope I can bring as much to the hurling field and drive on as a player.
"I hope I can keep improving and keep going with both teams."
Ballyhale have had to deal with more than their fair share of tragedy in recent times.
Then players Eoin Doyle and Eugene Aylward died in motor accidents in 2018 and 2019 respectively. This year, Cody's uncle Paul Shefflin, a brother of Henry, died suddenly aged 41 and former club chairmen Bobby Aylward and Patrick Holden also passed away. All were remembered in the wake of the county final triumph over James Stephens.
"It's been a tough year," says Cody. "It's been a tough number of years the five years we've won Kilkenny on the trot. There has been a lot of tragedy in the club. Obviously this year it was something personal for me and it was tough.
"It's probably something that has brought us all together in the club. It brings families together because everyone knows each other and we're all there for each other.
"The people we've lost haven't just been anyone. They've meant everything to everyone, they've been really big characters in the club. It's been a tough year, but hopefully we can do them all proud, all the families proud, the whole parish proud.
"For those that aren't with us, we know they're there with us in the Ballyhale crest and in our hearts. We're hoping to do them proud as well."
Shamrocks were seconds away from becoming the first club to win three consecutive senior hurling championships in February, only for Ballygunner's Harry Ruddle to find the net from 30 metres out in the fourth minute of additional time.
"Last year was a massive blow," admits Cody. "Lads did take their break, Colin and Joey went off [to the US]. A few lads knocking around during the summer. We had a new management team.
"Lads went off and hurled with Kilkenny then we came back together and regrouped after the year. The Kilkenny hurlers let us off during the league campaign to put hurling number two for a bit and go off to enjoy life.
"And when it came to the final round of the league, we were back and totally focused. Everyone was sharp and fit for the year ahead, we knew what was on the line. Joey and Colin came back before championship, which was an added bonus.
"We just drove on from there with no distractions. Hurling was back number one. We're going step by step again this year."
