Magheracloone
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| Magheracloone Macaire Cluaine |
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| Irish grid reference N825994 |
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| Province: | Ulster | |
| County: | County Monaghan | |
| Area: | 12,952 acres | |
| Population (?) | 1800(estimated) | |
Magheracloone is a parish in County Monaghan, very close to the Cavan-Monaghan border. Its name comes from Machaire (na) Cluana which is Irish for the Pasture Plain. It covers 12,952 statute acres, making it the biggest parish in south Monaghan. In the land lies numerous natural resources such as gypsum. During the 1840s the population numbered around 9,000; nowadays it only has a population of around 1800.
The Shirley landlords owned a vast amount of land and still do to this very day, they own the woods called "Shirley's Woods". The people of Magheracloone worshipped in three churches, built and maintained by the people of different religious faiths.
A quote from a local poet: "Where Breffny joins with kingly Meath at Tobermannon on the Glyde, there Magheracloone is, lying side by side."
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It has a Gaelic football team called the Magheracloone Mitchells. The team have won the Monaghan Senior Football Championship once in 2004. They have come runners-up three times in 2006, 2005 and 2002.they also have an under14 boys and girls olympic handball.The boys team came all-Ireland runners up and the girls came 1st in Ireland in 2006.
