placenamesDungourney
Dún Guairne
Dungourney’s local history includes a celebrated early hurling team and a church retaining nineteenth-century craftsmanship.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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
- Dún Guairne · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dungourney · English · main form
Place & story
Jamesy Kelleher’s team
Dungourney won Cork senior hurling championships in 1902, 1907 and 1909. The club’s history recalls the team led by Jamesy Kelleher and its victory while representing Cork in the 1902 All-Ireland championship, against London’s Brian Boru side. Later generations added East Cork junior honours in 1972 and county and Munster junior titles in 2015. [2]
Saint Peter’s
Saint Peter’s Roman Catholic Church dates from about 1810 in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Its interior retains an exposed scissors-truss roof, a marble altar and reredos, and a carved timber gallery with trefoil and quatrefoil decoration. A carved limestone bellcote crowns the north gable. These features preserve several different forms of nineteenth-century craftwork within one building. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Civil parish
- Dungourney
- Within
- Dungourney
- Coordinates
- 51.88229, -8.08714 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412763 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dungourney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- About Us: Dungourney CLG · Dungourney CLG
- Saint Peter’s Roman Catholic Church, Dungourney (20906603) · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.