placenamesClogher
An Clochar
Clogher preserves contrasting records of local life: the shell of an eighteenth-century estate house and a community project explaining rural homes and trades.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Clochar · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clogher · English · main form
Place & story
The surviving shell of Clogher House
Clogher House was built around 1770, with three storeys over a partly raised basement and a central entrance framed by classical stonework. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records damage in 1839, sale in 1967 and destruction by fire in 1970. Its surviving walls, outbuildings and walled garden preserve the layout of an estate associated with the Lynch, Crean-Lynch and FitzGerald-Kenney families. [2]
Staunton’s forge at Newtown
The local heritage organisation records the rebuilding of Newtown's ruined forge through a community employment scheme in 1999. The Staunton family had worked there since the nineteenth century: Patrick Staunton and his son Richard were both recorded as blacksmiths in the 1901 census. John Staunton, who died in 1980, was the family's last working smith at the forge. The restored building commemorates that practical rural trade. [3]
A labourer’s cottage recreated in 2003
Clogher's heritage cottage was constructed in 2003 to reproduce a small labourer's dwelling. Its one-bedroom arrangement includes an alcove bed and a loft, demonstrating how limited floor space could accommodate a household. Community employment workers built it with public support, local fundraising and donations. Objects contributed by residents help explain domestic and agricultural life, making the cottage a modern interpretation of older housing rather than a surviving original home. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Mayo
- Barony
- Carra
- Civil parish
- Burriscarra
- Within
- Clogher
- Coordinates
- 53.75429, -9.22814 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414376 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clogher. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clogher House,record31310001 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Heritage trail:Staunton’s Forge and Clogher Heritage Cottage · Clogher Heritage,Croagh Patrick Heritage Trail
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.