placenamesCloghan
An Clochán
The upland electoral division includes Letterbrick, where school buildings and a road bridge record successive periods of local investment.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- An Clochán · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cloghan · English · main form
Place & story
A school dated 1935
Letterbrick’s former national school bears the date 1935. Separate entrances and classrooms served boys and girls, with carved plaques identifying each entrance. The main building has a hipped slate roof, while cloakrooms and toilets occupy lower flat-roofed sections behind it. The inventory identifies these contrasting roof forms and the horizontal glazing bars as elements of its period design. It replaced an earlier school whose ruins survive beside Cummirk Bridge. [2]
The crossing at Cummirk Bridge
On Letterbrick’s edge, Cummirk Bridge carries the road over the Cummirk River shortly before it joins the Finn. Its three stone arches are irregularly spaced, with cutwaters on both sides of the piers. A bridge appears here on Taylor and Skinner’s 1777–83 road maps. The architectural inventory considers the surviving structure probably to be that crossing, while noting later repairs to its parapets. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cloghan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Letterbrick National School, NIAH40906703 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Cummirk Bridge, NIAH40906702 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.