Clogheen () is a village in

County Tipperary County Tipperary ( ga, Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early 13th century, shortly after t ...

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. The census of 2016 recorded the population at 478 people.

Location

It lies in the Galtee-Vee Valley with the

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to the north and the Knockmealdowns in close proximity to the south. The

River Tar The Tar () is a river in County Tipperary, Ireland. It joins the Suir between the towns of Ardfinnan and Newcastle. The Tar's tributaries include the River Duag which joins it shortly after they both flow through Clogheen. The Tar was an impo ...

which is a tributary of the

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runs through the village. It is located on the R665 and R668 regional roads. The nearest large towns are

Cahir Cahir (; ) is a town in County Tipperary in Ireland. It is also a civil parish in the barony of Iffa and Offa West. Location and access For much of the twentieth century, Cahir stood at an intersection of two busy national roadways: the Dubli ...

and

Mitchelstown Mitchelstown () is a town in County Cork, Ireland with a population of approximately 3,740. Mitchelstown is situated in the valley to the south of the Galtee Mountains, 12 km south-west of the Mitchelstown Caves, 28 km from Cahir, 50 ...

, approximately 14 and 20 kilometres away, respectively.

Transport

During the week it is served five times a day in each direction by Bus Éireann route 245 linking it to Clonmel,

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and Cork. At the weekend there are three buses each way. There's also a number 18 that runs direct from Dublin city.

History

The first substantial records of the village date from the Cromwellian period, but the village did not come to note until the 18th and 19th centuries. It then became a local centre of trade and commerce. The village takes its modern form from the 19th century with a wide area that was formerly the Market Square (and still named so) and a number of townhouses in the

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. Evidence of its former economic activity exists in the form of a number of ruined

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and accompanying mill-streams in the environs of the village, as well as several large estates. A former

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of Clogheen,

Nicholas Sheehy Father Nicholas Sheehy (1728–1766) was an 18th-century Irish Roman Catholic priest who was executed on the charge of accessory to murder. Father Sheehy was a prominent and vocal opponent of the Penal Laws, which disenfranchised and persecuted ...

, is buried at Shanrahan graveyard just outside the village, having been executed in

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. Sheehy had been a vocal opponent of

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s. When a secret oath-bound society known as the

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, formed in the parish, elements of the

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conspired to make him an example to those who questioned or threatened their powers. After a

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in Clonmel, he was hanged for murder and treason, crimes with little basis, no reliable witnesses, and no proof. The stately

Shanbally Castle Shanbally Castle was located near Clogheen, County Tipperary and built for Cornelius O'Callaghan, the first Viscount Lismore, in around 1810. It was the largest house built in Ireland by the noted English architect John Nash. The castle was acqu ...

was situated 4.5 kilometres outside the village. It was built circa 1820 for the 1st Viscount Lismore, designed by the architect John Nash, and was demolished by the State in 1960.

Daniel O'Connell Daniel O'Connell (I) ( ga, Dónall Ó Conaill; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. His mobilizat ...

addressed a crowd of up to 50,000 people in the town on 28 September 1828, as part of a public demonstration to demand

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. Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of 1837 notes Clogheen as being located in the barony of

Iffa and Offa West Iffa and Offa West (Irish: ''Uíbh Eoghain agus Uíbh Fhathaidh Thiar'') is a barony in County Tipperary, Ireland. This geographical unit of land is one of 12 baronies in County Tipperary. Its chief town is Cahir. The barony lies between Clanwil ...

and reported that there were 1,928 inhabitants, a military barracks for the accommodation of two troops of cavalry, an extensive brewery, plus seven flour mills in the town and neighbourhood.

Modern times

It is now primarily an agricultural town but it is well linked to the nearby economic centres of Clonmel and

and the larger economies of Cork,

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, and

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. Clogheen gained national notoriety in 2000 when a former hotel, which was due to house refugees, was damaged by fire in an arson attack. The event reputedly inspired the

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television film, ''Black Day at Black Rock''. The problems reflected a general upheaval in Irish rural society in which the local population experienced net immigration for the first time in its modern history.

People

Nan Joyce Nan Joyce (1940 – 7 August 2018) was an Irish Travellers' rights activist. She worked to improve the lives of Travellers in Ireland and Northern Ireland from 1981 until her death in 2018. She was the first Traveller candidate in an Irish gener ...

, the

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' rights activist, was born here in 1940. * Edward Sackville-West * Reginald Polecarew

Gallery

File:BridgeOverTheRiverTar.JPG, Junction of R668 and R665 roads in Clogheen File:Shanrahan.jpg, Shanrahan Graveyard, where Nicholas Sheehy is buried

References

External links

Clogheen History; Genealogy advice, Old Clogheen photos

Clogheen Official Homepage
{{County Tipperary Parishes of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore Towns and villages in County Tipperary Iffa and Offa West