Ray Treacy Rovers fans when his penalty against Sligo helped win the FAI Cup in 1978. Treacy almost scored a hat trick for the Republic of Ireland national football team against Turkey in April 1978. The two goals he scored (along with the game's opening goal by Johnny Giles) represent the last occasion that a home-based player has scored for the senior Irish national team until 40 years later when in June 2018, Graham Burke, also a Shamrock Rovers player, scored against the United States. Treacy represented the League of Ireland in a friendly against Argentina in the Boca Junior Stadium in
Seán Treacy Hollyford, Kilcommon and Rearcross in the Slieve Felim Hills, which straddle the borderland between the historical North and South Ridings of Tipperary. He is remembered in many songs. The song "Seán Treacy", also called "Tipperary so Far Away", is about Treacy's death and is still sung with pride in west Tipperary. A line from this song was quoted by former US president Ronald Reagan when he visited Tipperary in 1984: ""And I'll never more roam, from my own native home, in Tipperary so far away"". The song most closely identified with him, "Sean Treacy and Dan Breen" commemorates his and