Joe O'Hare

Patrick Joseph O'Hare, who appears in the atlas as Joe O'Hare, was an Irish Gaelic footballer born in 1929 who died on 21 September 2015. He played club football for Ballymacnab Round Towers and played at senior level for the Armagh county team. His best-known appearance came in the 1953 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final, when he came on in the second half as a substitute for the captain, Sean Quinn. That made him the only Ballymacnab man to have played in an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final, a distinction that stood until Rory Grugan matched it by playing for Armagh against Galway in the 2024 final. Gaelic football is the Irish field sport governed by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and the All-Ireland final is the climax of its senior inter-county championship.