placenamesMonavea
An Mhóin Bhuí
St Abban’s Athletic Club has made Monavea a meeting place for competitive athletes, recreational runners and schoolchildren.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Mhóin Bhuí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Monavea · English · main form
Place & story
A national league success
In August 2014, Frank Greally reported that St Abban’s women had won Division One at the national track-and-field league finals in Tullamore, while the men finished second in the Premier Division. The club’s Monavea facilities then included an indoor hall, gym, 400-metre track and a floodlit training loop. Its recreational Fit4Life programme also extended into surrounding communities. [2]
School athletics at Monavea
The club hosted its forty-ninth annual Student Games at Monavea on 26 April 2024. Its own report describes pupils competing in sprints, distance races, throwing events and relays, with points combined for groups of schools. Schools from the Carlow group won the competition. The event documents the grounds’ continuing role as a shared sporting venue for schools across the surrounding counties. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Slievemargy
- Civil parish
- Killabban
- Within
- Monavea
- Coordinates
- 52.84043, -7.07981 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413861 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Monavea. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- St Abbans is a club at the heart of the local community, 12 August 2014 · Frank Greally, Irish Independent
- 49th Annual Student Games, 26 April 2024 · St Abban’s Athletic Club
- The old roadside pump at Monavea, as photographed in April 2022 illustration: based on a Old Pump by kevin higgins. 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 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.