Rathmore

And then there is Rathmore, which is more of a "working man's" club, according to its most celebrated member.

Graeme McDowell: 'I don't want to win one major and then disappear' 2011

( "Rathmore" just means "big ringfort", An Ráth Mhór, though there is a local legend about a woman called Mor who lived there.)

Δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις θεῷ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς εἰρήνη ἐν ἀνθρώποις εὐδοκίας swisstone 2007

I decided to stay loyal to Rathmore, the club that taught me everything I knew.

Graeme McDowell: 'I don't want to win one major and then disappear' 2011

I've been back in Belfast for a reunion of those of us who (more or less) started in Rathmore Grammar School in 1978 and left in 1985, 25 years ago.

President Kaczyński burkesworks 2010

Back home McDowell's achievements on the golf course in 2010 were rewarded with a couple of honorary degrees, half a dozen or so honorary golf club memberships, an MBE and the mother of all parties at Rathmore golf club in Portrush where he learnt the game.

Graeme McDowell: 'I don't want to win one major and then disappear' 2011

I wrote before about the Rathmore Chaos, a feature of Jupiter's moon Europa which has been named after an ancient fort in County Antrim (and also shares its name with the grammar school I attended).

June Books 1) Little, Big nwhyte 2008

The crowds gathered last night in the village of Rathmore, yards inside the Kerry border with Cork and the first train station in the county.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

Idly googling the name of my old school I discovered to my delight and slight surprise that a large feature on Europa, the fourth of the four big moons of Jupiter, has been named "Rathmore Chaos".

Δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις θεῷ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς εἰρήνη ἐν ἀνθρώποις εὐδοκίας swisstone 2007

The specific derivation for the Rathmore nomenclature is this story by "Ethna Carbery" (Anna MacManus) from In The Celtic Past, published in 1904, two years after she died, based on this appendix to the Voyage of Bran.

Δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις θεῷ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς εἰρήνη ἐν ἀνθρώποις εὐδοκίας swisstone 2007

The crowds gathered last night in the village of Rathmore, yards inside the Kerry border with Cork and the first train station in the county.

Kerry victorious 2009