placenamesClogher
Clochar
The extensive civil parish joined several settlements through landed estates and a dispersed network of schools.
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
- Clochar · Irish · main form
- Clogher · English · main form
Place & story
Several manors within one parish
Lewis’s 1837 description places Augher, Clogher and Fivemiletown within separate manors of the same extensive parish. Blessingburne contained Fivemiletown, while Mount-Stewart and part of Killyfaddy also lay within its bounds. Eight townlands in Clogher manor were described as tithe-free abbey lands. These distinctions show how estate and ecclesiastical histories produced different divisions within the parish landscape. [2]
Gifts supporting local classrooms
Education depended on several named patrons. Bishop Garnett built the town’s free school in 1780 and left a bequest supporting its master. At Beltany, Francis Gervais provided land and helped the Erasmus Smith trustees build a school for boys and girls. Mrs Gervais maintained a girls’ school at Cecil. Lewis also records seventeen private schools and thirteen Sunday schools, showing provision distributed well beyond one central institution. [2]
A drive to the waterfall
At Lumford Glen, Lewis describes a stream passing through a rock cleft in a deep ravine before forming a cascade. A planted carriage drive approached the waterfall. This recorded improvement adds a recreational feature to his account of farms, houses and schools: the parish landscape was also being arranged for scenic journeys through its wooded ground. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clogher. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clogher Parish, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837 · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2015-07-23. How this page was prepared.