placenamesAnnaclone
Eanach Cluana
Annaclone’s community history includes a nineteenth-century Gothic church and a Gaelic club whose permanent grounds developed from local fundraising. Church alterations, school consolidation and sporting facilities trace successive investments in shared places.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Eanach Cluana · Irish · main form · validated name
- Annaclone · English · main form
Place & story
Saint Colman’s Church
Saint Colman’s Catholic church was consecrated on 6 November 1840, replacing a building erected in 1802. The Dictionary of Irish Architects associates the new Gothic church with Thomas Duff and its commissioning priest, J. S. Keenan, who also founded Saint Colman’s College in Newry. The record later identifies proposed additions and alterations by Timothy Hevey in 1878. It also notes the church’s redecoration and the installation of two side altars in 1924, showing how the building continued to change after its initial construction. [2]
A permanent home at Gaelic Park
Annaclone’s Gaelic club dates its foundation to 1896. Its own history recalls a succession of borrowed or leased fields before the development of permanent grounds. From the 1940s it used McNeill’s Field, remaining there into the 1970s. Local sponsorship then helped acquire the land for Gaelic Park, officially opened on 14 May 1972 with a pitch and changing rooms. A hall, replacement changing facilities, an artificial-surface pitch and a gym followed over subsequent decades. [3]
Schools and restoration
Leo McNeill records school consolidation during James McCartan’s 1966–78 ministry, and church restoration after an April 1997 arson attack. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Iveagh Upper, Upper Half
- Civil parish
- Annaclone
- Within
- Ardbrin
- Coordinates
- 54.30404, -6.18705 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1411719 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Annaclone. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Church of Saint Colman, Annaclone: works record 7971 · Irish Architectural Archive, Dictionary of Irish Architects
- Annaclone GAC: Our History · Annaclone GAC
- Parish of Annaclone · Leo McNeill
- Christ Church, Annaclone, County Down illustration: based on a Christ Church, Annaclone by Terry Stewart. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.