placenamesGranagh
Greanach
Granagh’s former national school continued serving the village as a meeting place for clubs, performances and local organisations.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Greanach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Granagh · English · main form
Place & story
A school with another role
The building used as Granagh Community Centre began as a nineteenth-century national school. Its educational role ended when Saint Joseph’s National School opened in 1967. The old school had already accommodated meetings beyond the classroom: the local community history places the formation of Granagh Co-op there in 1891 and records its later use by the Local Defence Force during the 1940s. [2]
Drama, clubs and local ownership
Drama and entertainment became prominent in the hall from the late 1960s through the work of Macra na Feirme. The community account also records the camogie club’s formation in 1976 and the soccer club’s beginnings in the hall in 1991. In 2003 parishioners formed Granagh Development Association, which took over ownership of the hall from the church. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Civil parish
- Ballingarry
- Coordinates
- 52.45507, -8.76502 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414141 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Granagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Granagh Community: About · Granagh Development Association
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2018-08-07. How this page was prepared.