Naomh Moninne Hurling Club had its beginning as Cumann Ogra Naomh Moninne in 1959 in the Castletown area of Faughart Parish where local priest an tAthair Pol MacSeain introduced the game of hurling to the young boys from the Fatima area of Dundalk. The first sliotars to be pucked were on a small strip of land at Toberona corner known as ‘Hoey’s Plot’. As the game grew in popularity the necessity a
rose for a bigger playing field. An tAthair was successful in obtaining permission from the then Town Clerk to use a piece of land at the back of Fatima known as ‘The Meadows’ which was later to be known as ‘An Bainseach’. Local residents who were instrumental in the development included Tom Casey, Frank Myles, Peter Callan, Sam McGuinness, Sean Murphy, Micheal Coburn, Tom Kinch and Dermot Keelan. Two railway carriages were obtained for use as changing rooms while the E.S.B. In 1960 Cumann Peile nOg were approached with the view to organising an underage Hurling Street league in the town. Following on from discussions with Hugh O”Hare and Jim Whitty the League came into existence. Naomh Moninne competed firstly at Under 16 level where they were to be successful beating Castletown in the final, after a replay, a victory that was met with great celebrations in the community. From these beginnings there would soon be Leagues running from under 8’s to under 60’s. The Clubs first set of jerseys were obtained from a local club called ‘Mount Rovers’ who has gone out of existence and they were Black and Amber bars, colours still used by the Club today. An tAthair MacSeain named the Club after Saint Moninne, she being a Saint of Faughart before the time of Saint Brigid.
