The club was founded in 1889 and is named after poet and Fenian activist John Locke. He was born in Callan in 1847 and was exiled in the United States.
- Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1957
- Leinster Junior Club Hurling Championship (1): 2010
- Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling Championship (3): 1935, 1993, 1999
- Kilkenny Junior Hurling Championship (5): 1911, 1952, 1987, 2010, 2017
- Kilkenny Under-21 Hurling 'B' Championship (1) 2010
- Kilkenny Minor Hurling Championship (2): 1950, 1984,
- Kilkenny Minor Hurling 'B' Championship (2) 1997, 2015
- Kilkenny Minor Hurling 'A' League (1) 1984, 2010
- Kilkenny Minor Hurling 'B' League (7) 1989, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2008, 2013, 2015