Iveagh Grounds

The Iveagh Grounds is a multi-purpose sports facility based in Drimnagh/Crumlin, Dublin. It is the home base of several sports clubs and teams who are associated with the Guinness Athletic Union. These include St James's Gate F.C. and St James Gaels GAA. It is named after Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh who purchased the site and then donated it to the union. Other clubs that play at the Iveagh Grounds include a field hockey club and a rugby union club. As well as St James's Gate F.C., two other association football clubs, Bangor Celtic F.C. and St. John Bosco F.C., also play home games at the Iveagh Grounds.

History

Iveagh

Iveagh (/ˈaɪveɪ/; from Irish: Uíbh Eachach, meaning "descendants of Echu") is the name of several different historical territorial divisions located in modern-day County Down, Northern Ireland. It is the anglicised name of an ancient Irish district, ruled by the Uí Echach Cobo, as well as the name of a former barony, which was split into Iveagh Lower and Iveagh Upper.

Uíbh Eachach Cobha

Iveagh derives its name from the Cruithin tribe Uíbh Eachach, or "descendants of Echu", and referred to an ancient Irish túath (district). It is also known more fully as Uíbh Eachach Cobha (Echu Cobo), and equivalent with Uíbh Eachach Uladh (Eachach of Ulster). The Uíbh Eachach where one of the tribes that made up the ancient kingdom of Ulaid in eastern Ulster. They shared the kingship of Ulaid with the Dál Fiatach and their kin the Dál nAraidi. The Uíbh Eachach were the most prominent sept of the Dál nAraidi,

The name Magh Cobha, meaning "plain of Cobo", appears to have been an older name for Iveagh. The name survived as Moycove, the earliest recorded name in the civil parish of Drumballyroney, where it was the name of an Anglo-Norman castle between 1188–1261. The highest point in the parish is the hills of Knock Iveagh (Cnoc Uíbh Eachach), which may have been the centre of Uíbh Eachach power.

Iveagh (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 54°22′59″N 6°12′00″W / 54.383°N 6.200°W / 54.383; -6.200

Iveagh /ˈaɪveɪ/ was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

Boundaries

Iveagh was a county constituency comprising part of northern County Down, south west of Belfast. It was created when the House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929 introduced first-past-the-post elections throughout Northern Ireland. Iveagh was created by the division of Down into eight new constituencies. The constituency survived unchanged until 1969, when its eastern part became part of the new Lagan Valley constituency. It returned one Member of Parliament until the Parliament of Northern Ireland was temporarily suspended in 1972, and then formally abolished in 1973.

The original seat was centred on the town of Dromore and also included parts of the rural districts of Banbridge, Hillsborough and Moira.

Politics

The seat had a substantial unionist majority and was always won by Ulster Unionist Party candidates. It was often contested by independent Unionists, and once by a member of the Protestant Unionist Party, some of whom were able to take more than 40% of the votes cast.

Iveagh (disambiguation)

Iveagh derives from the Irish: Uíbh Echach, referring to a clan that controlled west County Down, Ireland, into the 17th century. Its pronunciation varies geographically: /ˈaɪveɪ/ in Ulster, /ˈaɪviː/ in Dublin, and /ˈaɪvɑː/ in London. It may refer to:

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