Manorcunningham, County Donegal
Football at Orchard Park
Players can move from schoolboy and schoolgirl football into women’s and men’s teams at Lagan Harps’ Orchard Park base.
Manorcunningham football since 1971
Lagan Harps FC is the football club for Manorcunningham, formed when the Donegal Junior League began in 1971. The club history names a Gaiety Hall meeting, Packie O’Donnell as the first team manager and a first league match in March 1972 against Finn Harps.
The identity is green and white, with a round badge carrying the tree, football and harp symbols, plus EST and 1971 ribbons. The full club name, Lagan Harps Football Club, is the form used on the official website.
Orchard Park / Orchard Park-Manor
Orchard Park, Manorcunningham is the club address, and Orchard Park-Manor is the match venue name used in Donegal league fixtures. It is the mapped football base for visiting teams; fixture details should still be checked for the final pitch call.
The club history ties Orchard Park to a 1982 fundraising campaign that helped secure the pitch for football in Manorcunningham.
Home match venue and football base: Orchard Park / Orchard Park-Manor, Manorcunningham, County Donegal.
Boys, girls and Foyle Cup age groups
The underage pathway covers girls’ and boys’ groups, including U8 girls, U12 girls, U14A and U16A squads, alongside Foyle Cup groups from U10 to U13 in recent seasons.
For parents, the useful point is simple: Lagan Harps is more than a single adult team. Younger players can join a club setting that connects local schoolboy and schoolgirl football with older teams at Orchard Park.
Women’s football at the club
The women’s and schoolgirls section is part of the club’s identity, with Brid McGinty connected with the start of the section and Gabriel Crawford and Gerard McGarrigle coming in as coaches.
Lagan’s standout women’s season came in 2010, when the club won the WFAI Intermediate Cup by beating Eureka Kells at Leckview Park, with Nikita Burke scoring the winner. The same season also brought the Glencar Cup and the league.
Men’s teams and Donegal league football
The men’s story includes early cup success in 1972/73, then a long run in Donegal football. The club won the Milford Inn Division One title in 2006/07, added the Brian Mc Cormick Sportsman’s Cup in 2007/08, and took the Milford Inn First Division again in 2009/10 and 2015/16.
The following season brought a third place finish in the Premier Division, described by the club as its highest Sunday League position. The same history also notes how young players coming through from the schoolboys helped keep the men’s team going during a leaner spell.
Selected honours
The club’s named honours are easiest to read as season and team entries.
Joining and contact
For joining, registration or team contact, families should use the official website and the current Donegal league contact channel. The Donegal league contact is laganharpsfc@outlook.com.
Older registration posts on the club site show how league forms and club fees have been handled in past seasons, but those details change. For a player joining now, current club contact should come first.