An electric fishing survey of the river at Ballinderry was conducted in September 2012 by Inland Fisheries Ireland.
Crossmaglen were the current holders - beating Ballinderry in the 2008 final at Brewster Park in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.
Seán Larkin was a member of the Irish Volunteers and hunger striker from Bellagherty, a townland of Ballinderry less than 1 km from Ballylifford.
The village sits at a crossroads that linked the medieval church site of Aghagallon (Ballinderry Old Graveyard), and later to the Plantation site of Portmore Castle.