C.L.G. Naomh Adhamhnáin
| C.L.G. Naomh Adhamhnáin | |||||||||||||||||
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| Founded: | 1930 | ||||||||||||||||
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| County: | Donegal | ||||||||||||||||
| Nickname: | Eunuchs | ||||||||||||||||
| Colours: | Amber and Black | ||||||||||||||||
| Grounds: | O'Donnell Park | ||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 54°56′43.35″N 7°45′09.13″W / 54.9453750°N 7.7525361°WCoordinates: 54°56′43.35″N 7°45′09.13″W / 54.9453750°N 7.7525361°W | ||||||||||||||||
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C.L.G. Naomh Adhamhnáin (St. Eunan's) is a GAA club. Their home ground is O'Donnell Park in Letterkenny.
One of the strongholds of Gaelic football in County Donegal, they have won the Donegal Senior Football Championship more times than any other team apart from Gaoth Dobhair (both have won 14). Considered Donegal's most prolific club, they are renowned for their conveyor belt-like consistency in producing players of senior inter-county quality, including numerous All-Ireland winners. Also renowned for their success at minor level, they have toured abroad, particularly the United States in 1969 and 1998, and Glasgow in 1977. In 1980 they received an All-Ireland Club of the Year Award at a ceremony in Ballsbridge, Dublin.
They have a long-running boundary dispute with neighbouring junior club Gaeil Leitir Ceanainn.
Frank "Steve" Donohoe and Mickey McGovern formed a club called the "Fag a Bailes" in 1917 during a meeting at McGovern's Public House on Letterkenny's Lower Main Street. This club would be important to the proper establishment of Gaelic football in East Donegal. The town's first Gaelic football playing field was located where Scoil Colmcille, Letterkenny currently is. Also in the team of that era were goalkeeper Johnny McClean and Fr. John McMonagle of Glencar, who played at midfield. Then the Black and Tans came along and had destroyed everything by the early 1920s. Letterkenny's next clubs were the Geraldines (established in 1924) and Letterkenny Rovers. Letterkenny Rovers won the town's first Donegal Senior Football Championship in 1927—beating Carrigans in a final uniquely held at Newtowncunningham—with a field selected, goalposts erected and admission fee of 6d.
1930 brought the foundation of the current club, with Geraldines and Rovers fading away into nothing. Glencar was the location of the club's first playing pitch. In its first year of existence the club reached the final of the 1930 Donegal Senior Football Championship, losing to Dungloe by a scoreline of 3-2 to 2-3. The club purchased the grounds for O'Donnell Park for £300 in the 1930s. The ground opened on Sunday 2 May 1937, when a hurling match between Donegal and Antrim and a football match between Donegal and Armagh were divided by an address from GAA President R. O'Keeffe, and all were preceded by the Most Rev. Dr. McNeely, Bishop of Raphoe's Blessing of the Park. By the mid-1940s, it was Letterkenny's only GAA club—having also seen off both St. Pat's and St. Columba's—and the team reached the final of the Donegal Senior Football Championship in 1944, 1946 and 1947, losing to the four-in-a-row invincibles from Gaoth Dobhair.
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