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Liatroim

Books and volunteer work record the people behind Liatroim Fontenoys’ changing facilities.

Watercolour and fine ink illustration of Liatroim Fontenoys club facilities at Leitrim, County Down, as photographed in August 2011.
Illustration, Liatroim Fontenoys club facilities at Leitrim, County Down, as photographed in August 2011
Recorded locationLeitrim54.29380° N · 5.99247° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

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

  • Liatroim · Irish · main form
  • Leitrim · English · main form

Place & story

A history revised

The Fontenoys’ centenary history grew into a larger undertaking. Reporting its revised edition in December 2016, Séamas McAleenan described a volume of more than seven hundred pages with over a dozen contributors. Michael McCartan revisited the earlier period using newly available evidence, while other writers followed members’ later sporting lives in Australia. [2]

People & connections

The people behind the ground

In a 2021 site visit, journalist Chris McCullough interviewed volunteer groundsman Tiarnach Magee, who worked alongside his father Declan. Their tasks included mowing, repairing worn areas and marking the pitches around their regular jobs. The account records the continuing labour needed to maintain the rural club’s shared facilities. [3]

A newer playing surface

McCullough distinguished the original pitch, opened in 1968, from a sand-based pitch completed in 2018 and first used for games in July 2019. The complex also included a kilometre-long exercise trail. These improvements extended the club’s facilities for the surrounding district beyond its competitive teams. [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Down
Civil parish
Drumgooland
Coordinates
54.29380, -5.99247
Mapped area
4.92 km²
Logainm ID
66545 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1901 census

202People recorded
51Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Herron 19
  • McIlroy 16
  • Telford 14
  • Dalzell 12
  • Boyd 10
Explore the 1901 records ↗

1926 census

This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Leitrim. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Liatroim Fontenoys brought to book in updated history, 31 December 2016 · Séamas McAleenan, The Irish News
  3. Liatroim Fontenoys GAC – a chance to breathe, 16 January 2021 · Chris McCullough, Pitchcare
  4. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  5. Liatroim Fontenoys club facilities at Leitrim, County Down, as photographed in August 2011 illustration: based on a The Liatroim Fountenoy GAA Club, Leitrim by Eric Jones. 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 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.