placenamesClogheen
An Chloichín
Buildings at Shanrahan and Flemingstown preserve different strands of the wider division’s working and commemorative landscape.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An Chloichín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clogheen · English · main form
Place & story
The O’Callaghan memorial
Shanrahan’s limestone mausoleum bears the date 1742. Its pedimented roof and narrow pointed openings combine Classical and Gothic features around a barrel-vaulted interior. The architectural inventory identifies the monument inside as commemorating Cornelius O’Callaghan, who died in 1742, and attributes its sculpture to David Sheehan of Dublin. The mausoleum stands beside the remains of Shanrahan’s medieval church. [2]
A crossing over the Duag
The four-arched bridge at Shanrahan was standing by 1840. Its segmental arches, triangular cutwaters and Ordnance Survey benchmark survive in the architectural record. The inventory suggests a possible connection with the nearby church’s reconstruction following an 1819 grant; this is a proposed context, rather than a documented construction date for the crossing itself. [3]
Flemingstown’s manager’s house
At Flemingstown Mill, a house built around 1930 survives beside the ruined mill buildings. The inventory records an L-shaped plan behind its more regular frontage, with a projecting bow window and concrete window sills. Its former use as the mill manager’s house gives this domestic building a specific connection with the district’s industrial activity. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clogheen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Shanrahan mausoleum, 22125016 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Shanrahan bridge over the Duag, 22208715 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Flemingstown Mill manager’s house, 22208714 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Clogheen electoral division: constituent townlands · Townlands.ie / OpenStreetMap contributors
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.