placenamesKildinan
Cill Daighnín
A rural athletics club brought an All-Ireland title to Kildinan in 1943, and later generations commemorated the achievement.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Daighnín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kildinan · English · main form
Place & story
The 1943 victory
Kildinan Athletic Club won the All-Ireland junior cross-country championship in 1943 under captain George Gubbins. John Walshe’s account for Cork Athletics names a twelve-man winning team and places its training ground in the locality between Rathcormac and Glenville. The club also accumulated seven Cork senior cross-country titles before declining after 1952. [2]
Remembering the runners
Eight decades after the championship, a monument was unveiled beside the field where the athletes had trained. The occasion also launched Remembering Kildinan Athletics, a 36-page booklet compiled by Gerard Murphy. Murphy recalled growing up nearby without knowing that an earlier generation had trained on the same local roads. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Civil parish
- Rathcormack
- Within
- Kildinan
- Coordinates
- 52.05249, -8.37906 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412791 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kildinan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Eight Decades on — A Famous Cross-Country Victory is Finally Honoured · John Walshe, Cork Athletics
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.