Clogher

Coordinates: 54°25′00″N 7°12′00″W / 54.416667°N 7.2°W / 54.416667; -7.2

Clogher
Irish: Clochar
Clogher  Clogher shown within Northern Ireland
Population	308  (2001)
Irish grid reference	H538517
- Belfast	59 miles
District	Dungannon and South Tyrone
County	County Tyrone
Country	Northern Ireland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CLOGHER
Postcode district	BT76
Dialling code	028, +44 28
Police	Northern Ireland
Fire	Northern Ireland
Ambulance	Northern Ireland
EU Parliament	Northern Ireland
UK Parliament	Fermanagh and South Tyrone
List of places: UK • Northern Ireland • Tyrone

Clogher (Irish: Clochar) is a village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, situated on the River Blackwater, 18 miles (29 km) south of Omagh. Although home to a Church of Ireland cathedral, by population it is a village. The United Kingdom Census of 2001 recorded a population of 309. 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]}.

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 Macartan's in Clogher and St Macartin's in Enniskillen. The Roman Catholic diocesan cathedral is in Monaghan.

Transport

Clogher railway station (on the narrow gauge Clogher Valley Railway) opened on 2 May 1887, but finally closed on 1 January 1942.^[1]

Sport

• Clogher Éire Óg is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club.

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.
• Professional soccer player Dermot McCaffrey is from Clogher and lived his childhood years there. Dermot currently plays for Falkirk FC in the Scottish Premier League
• Retailer Timothy Eaton was born in Clogher in 1834.

Education

• Carntall Primary School
• Clogher Regional Primary School
• St. MacCartan's Convent Primary School

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

Notes

References

• NI Neighbourhood Information Service
• Ulster Place Names
• Clogher Historical Society/Cumann Seanchais Chlochair