placenamesClogher
An Clochar
Lewis described a parish without its own Protestant church, linked to neighbouring Clonoulty.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Clochar · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clogher · English · main form
Place & story
Connections with Clonoulty
Clogher had neither a Protestant church nor a glebe-house when Samuel Lewis described it in 1837. Its Protestant parishioners attended church at Clonoulty instead. Catholic church organisation also connected Clogher to Clonoulty: Lewis placed it within that Catholic union or district. His account therefore distinguishes the civil parish from the wider arrangements through which residents worshipped. [2]
A landscape on the Thurles road
Lewis situated Clogher on the road between Tipperary and Thurles. He described roughly half its land as good arable ground and pasture, with much of the remainder mountainous and some bog. A fee-paying school taught about 140 children. These descriptions concern the Tipperary parish, rather than the better-known Clogher in Ulster. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.63010, -7.97924
- Mapped area
- 32.87 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2254 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clogher. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clogher, Kilnemanagh, Tipperary — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.