Penarth Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club based since 1924 at The Athletic Field, Lavernock Road, in Penarth, in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales.Penarth RFC was founded in 1879 by Cyril and Llewellyn Batchelor, sons of the John Batchelor whose statue stands in The Hayes, Cardiff. Originally known as the Batchelor XV the team amalgamated with Penarth Dreadnoughts in 1882 and renamed as Penarth Football Club - soccer being known as Association football at the time. Locally the team became known as the "Donkey Island Butcher Boys", a nickname that occasionally remains to this day, along with the familial name of the "Seasiders".