Location
The Parish of Clonard representing the townlands of Ballymorris, Clonard Great and Little, Coolree, Killeens, Laurstown, Newtown (Forth by), Whitemill South and North, Ballnagee, Forth Commons, Larkinstown and Newbay is represented by Clonard GAA club. The club crest reflects the meaning of the word Clonard – ‘An Chluain Árd’ the high meadow as well as a church steeple to reflect the view from the meadowlands of Clonard. The church steeple also reflects the origins of the club in the parish and perhaps a nod to one of its founders Fr. Lory Kehoe and its past history as Our Lady’s. The church steeple has also been interpreted as a windmill perhaps a reference to the seventeen windmills that were mapped in the now parish of Clonard in the early 1800s.

Foundation
The club has its beginnings as mentioned as a result of Fr. Lory Kehoe’s efforts in 1986 to have a GAA club to represent the parish. Fr. Lory Kehoe a man steeped in the tradition of the GAA, whose father Michael was a past president of the GAA from 1949-1952, called a meeting of parish members who might be willing to set up a club in the parish. Thus these beginnings resulted in thirty-one adults and eleven juveniles attending the first general meeting of Clonard GAA club on January 29th 1987.

The annual general meeting of Clonard GAA club at the end of 1987 almost twelve months after the foundation of the club records a total of 46 adult players representing the club in eighteen games and 169 under age players (including 42 u10s) playing in sixty-eight games. The team managers from u10 to adult level included John Roche, Joe Brennan, Michael Lyng, Donal Littleton, Larry Brennan, John Quigley, Eamonn Moore, Brendan Smith and Charlie Doyle.