placenamesOgonnelloe
Tuath Ó gConaíle
Ogonnelloe’s local landmarks connect the district with an early county hurling victory, an American tour and the family patronage of a nineteenth-century church.
The name
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An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Tuath Ó gConaíle · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ogonnelloe · English · main form
Place & story
The team of 1888
Ogonnelloe won the Clare county hurling championship in 1888. The club’s account names John Fitzgibbon and Michael Gaynor among the players who travelled to America that September with the GAA’s touring party. Their journey gives this small east Clare community a place in the association’s early efforts to establish connections across the Atlantic. [2]
Dr Stuart Park
The club opened Dr Stuart Park on 6 July 1986, naming the ground after Joe Stuart. Stuart became GAA president in 1958 and had also refereed major hurling finals. The ground’s name commemorates a career spanning playing-field administration, refereeing and leadership of the national association, while providing a permanent home for local hurling. [2]
The Purdon family’s church
The former Church of Ireland church at Rahena Beg was built around 1860 by the Purdon family. Its three-stage entrance tower has battlements and pinnacles, while pointed windows have cut-stone surrounds. The architectural inventory records alterations around 1985 for residential use. The building remains a distinctive part of the wider Ogonnelloe landscape, with its graveyard and stone font. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.88804, -8.46060 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1411696 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ogonnelloe. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- O’Gonnelloe: club information and Dr Stuart Park · Clare GAA / O’Gonnelloe Hurling Club
- Ogonnelloe Church, registration 20403705 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.