Clogher
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| Clogher Clochar |
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| Province: | Ulster | |
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| County: | County Tyrone | |
| District: | Dungannon | |
| UK Parliament: | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | |
| Dialling code: | 028, +44 28 | |
| Post town: | Clogher | |
| Postal district(s): | BT76 | |
| Population (2001) | 309 | |
| Website: www.dungannon.gov.uk | ||
Clogher (Clochar in Irish) is a village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, situated on the River Blackwater, 18 miles south of Omagh. Although home to a Church of Ireland Cathedral, by population it is a small village. It had a population of 309 people in the 2001 Census. It lies within the Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council area.
Clogher is a place-name which means something to do with or made of stone. In this case it must refer to stone building at the royal ring-fort or cathedral. No early stonework is visible today, but archaeologists found a building which had already tumbled into rubble by the 5th century. Clogher is said to have been the location of a gold pagan idol named Cermand Cestach[citation needed].
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[edit] Religion
Clogher is also the name of a diocese within both the Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic diocesan structures. The diocesan areas of both roughly correspond, taking in most of Counties Fermanagh and Monaghan, a large part of South Tyrone and small portions of Counties Donegal, Leitrim and Cavan. The Church of Ireland Diocese has two Cathedrals, St. MacCartan's in Clogher, and St. MacCartan's in Enniskillen. The Roman Catholic Diocesan Cathedral is in Monaghan.
[edit] Transport
Clogher railway station (on the narrow gauge Clogher Valley Railway) opened on 2 May 1887, but finally closed on 1 January 1942.[1]
[edit] Sport
- Clogher Éire Óg is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club.
[edit] People
- The novelist William Carleton was born in the nearby townland of Prillisk on Shrove Tuesday, 20 February 1794.
- Some biographers of Jonathan Swift have claimed that Swift married Esther Johnson, known as Stella, in the deanery garden at Clogher in 1716.[2]
- Brigadier Juan MacKenna an Irishman, Chilean military officer and hero of the Chilean War of Independence. He is considered to have been the creator of the Corps of Military Engineers of the Chilean Army.
[edit] Education
- Carntall Primary School
- Clogher Regional Primary School
- St. MacCartan's Convent Primary School
[edit] References
- ^ Clogher station. Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved on 2007-09-16.
- ^ 1911 Encyclopedia
- NI Neighbourhood Information Service
- Ulster Place Names
- Clogher Historical Society/Cumann Seanchais Chlochair
[edit] See also
- Abbeys and priories in Northern Ireland (County Tyrone)
- List of villages in Northern Ireland
- List of towns in Northern Ireland
- Market Houses in Northern Ireland
