Iveagh Park
The name is the only thread worth pulling here. Iveagh is the title held by the Guinness family, Earls of Iveagh, and it turns up attached to sporting ground elsewhere under that same patronage — most notably around Dublin. Whether this particular field carries the name for that reason, or for some unrelated local one, is not something the available record confirms either way.
Past that, there is little to add with any confidence. No source at hand fixes the ground's location on a map, states a capacity, marks the year it opened, or names a club that has used it as home. The country listed for it is Great Britain, yet the strongest naming parallel — Iveagh Gardens, Iveagh Grounds — sits in Ireland, and nothing found reconciles that gap.
A ground like this one usually gets written up through the club that plays there: match reports, a groundsman quoted on the state of the pitch, a programme note on the year the stand went up. None of that has surfaced for Iveagh Park. What remains is a name with a plausible pedigree and, beyond it, a blank that further digging would need to fill before anything more definite could be said.
Who plays here
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Rathfriland 48 matches
Recent matches here
| Date | Match | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Aug | Rathfriland — Newry City AFC | 1:2 |
| 8 Aug | Rathfriland — Loughgall | 1:3 |
| 28 Apr | Rathfriland — Dergview | |
| 18 Apr | Rathfriland — Moyola Park | 0:1 |
| 28 Mar | Rathfriland — Oxford Sunnyside | 4:1 |
| 24 Mar | Rathfriland — Newry City AFC | 0:0 |
| 21 Mar | Rathfriland — Portstewart | 2:0 |
| 7 Mar | Rathfriland — Dollingstown |