Special Report (Rural Ireland): Lively Exchange of ideas about the future in O’Gonnelloe

In part four of our special on rural Ireland. Caroline O’Doherty visits O’Gonnelloe in Co. Clare.

IT IS quite literally a small point but O’Gonnelloe would like its apostrophe back.

Some time in the 1980s, probably when the computerisation of official records became commonplace, the occasionally omitted apostrophe disappeared entirely, the G dropped to lower case and O’Gonnelloe became the Ogonnelloe that now appears on road signs, maps, and just about every other document that references its existence.