Dungourney

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Sport

Dungourney GAA Club and Dungourney Camogie Club are the local Gaelic games clubs.

The Fitzgibbon Cup, the hurling competition contested by university teams, is named after Dungourney man Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon. He was born in 1884, and went to school in the area before joining the Capuchin Franciscan Order in 1893. He died in 1938 and was buried at the Capuchin cemetery in Rochestown.[3]

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References

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  1. A. D. Mills, 2003, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford University Press
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