Clogher
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Clogher is a small village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, situated on the River Blackwater in the Dungannon district 18 miles south of Omagh. Although home to a Church of Ireland Cathedral, by population it is a small village. It had a population of 309 people in the 2001 Census. It lies within the Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council area.
Clogher is a place-name which means something to do with or made of stone. In this case it must refer to stone building at the royal ring-fort or cathedral. No early stonework is visible today, but archaeologists found a building which had already tumbled into rubble by the 5th century.
Clogher is said to have been the location of a gold pagan idol named Cermand Cestach.
Clogher is also the name of a diocese within both the Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic diocesan structures. The diocesan areas of both roughly correspond, taking in most of Counties Fermanagh and Monaghan, a large part of South Tyrone and small portions of Counties Donegal, Leitrim and Cavan.
The Church of Ireland Diocese has two Cathedrals, St Macartan's in Clogher, and St Macartin's in Enniskillen. The Roman Catholic Diocesan Cathedral is in Monaghan.
People
The novelist William Carleton was born in the nearby townland of Prillisk on Shrove Tuesday, 20 February 1794.
Some biographers of Jonathan Swift have claimed that Swift married Esther Johnson, known as Stella, in the deanery garden at Clogher in 1716. [link]
References
- [NI Neighbourhood Information Service]
- [Ulster Place Names]
- [Clogher Historical Society/Cumann Seanchais Chlochair]
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