Gaelic games in Courcey's date back to the foundations of the Association itself and beyond, but up until the 1940s there were various clubs scattered in the parish ( Old Head, Kilcolman, Old Blues, Castlepark) and then two clubs in the parish from Ballinspittle and Ballinadee.

Old Head Team:: T Calnan Captain, T Holland goal, M O’Sullivan, L Holland, M Fitzgerald, W O’Connell, J Downey, Pat O’Connell, Jim Holland, T Calnan, Jos. Holland, J Dempsey, Jer Calnan, T Holland and B. Calnan.       

Castlepark Team:: J White Captain, M Desmond goal, D Hazel, J Collins, W Hayes, D O’Leary, C Quinn, W Rohane, N Rohane, P Desmond, T Cummins, J Cronin, J Nyhan, D O’Connell and M Quinn. 

Ballyrub Team:: W Daly, D McCarthy, J Donovan, J Griffin, D Twomey, J Twomey, J O’Brien, O’Mahony, W Holland, J O’Leary, T O’Leary, O Tully, W McGrath, D Nyhan, D O’Leary, P Connolly.

In January 1904, the first official West Cork Board was set up. They ran off the first official West Cork Football Championship. Whereas twelve teams entered the football championship only three of those formed hurling teams, namely Bandon, Clonakilty and Skibbereen. They were joined by newly formed Kilbrittain, Shannonvale, Clogagh and Ballinadee who did not field in football. Of those original seven, Kilbrittain and Ballinadee (Courcey Rovers) have since retained hurling as their primary game.

The very first draw for the West Cork Hurling Championship (part of the 1904 Championship) took place in January 1905 and resulted as Shannonvale V Clogagh; Ballinadee V Bandon; Clonakilty V Skibbereen; Kilbrittain a bye.

 Bandon played Ballinadee in Bandon. The game was originally fixed for Kilbrittain but Ballinadee agreed to go to Bandon. However, when they saw the heavy state of the Bandon pitch they at first refused to play and the game was held up for an hour. When it eventually took place, Bandon were far superior, winning 5 – 9 to 0 - 0. 

It was, in fact, the first recorded championship hurling game played in West Cork. The Ballinadee colures were red and white. When Ballinspittle later entered the hurling arena in the thirties, they were blue and white and became known  as "The  Old Blues" That Ballinadee team of 1905 was::

Ballinadee: J Hailes, D Hailes, R Hailes, J Cahalane, J Kiely, J Lordan, T Crowley, C Crowley, T Brien, P Brien, Wm. McCarthy, J McCarthy, T Crowley, J Burns, P Corcoran, J Crowley, D McCarthy.

In 1947, the two clubs amalgamated to form Courcey Rovers. The founder members were Jim O’Regan Chairman (R.I.P.), Dave O’Sullivan Secretary assisted by Dan McSweeney (RIP), Steven Nolan, Treasurer (RIP) assisted by Jim Holland (RIP) and Humphrey Corcoran Vice-chairman (RIP). Secretary's minutes from first meeting of club as written by the then Secretary Dave O’Sullivan, who today is still a proud supportor of Courcey Rovers. The Red and White colors of the club were chosen by a toss of a coin.

In its very first year the club won the South West Junior A and B Hurling Championships.

Highlights over the next three decades include winning eight out of eleven South West Hurling titles from 1947 including a Five-In-A-Row and reaching the County Finals of 1957 and 1970. The defeats in those deciders were against Tracton and Clughduv respectively.

In 1974, Courcey’s made the major decision and switched from the South West (Carbery) to the South East Division (Carrigdhoun) having won Fifteen Junior A Hurling titles in less than thirty years. This was the cause of much debate at the time, and still is to this day.

Following a lean spell in Carrigdhoun the club came good in the 1980s with victory in both hurling and football in the Carrigdhoun Cups in 1982, that year also saw the club wining its first major Adult  Division title in the South East by wining the U21 A Hurling title beating Ballymartle in the final. Successes were few and far between for the rest of the eighties, but the '90's brought better days.