Clogheen () is a village in

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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 Ardfinnan () is a small village in County Tipperary in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is situated on the River Suir and R665 road, R665 ...

which is a tributary of the

Suir The River Suir ( ; or ''Abhainn na Siúire'' ) is a river in Ireland that flows into the Atlantic Ocean through Waterford after a distance of . The catchment area of the Suir is 3,610 km2.

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

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, approximately 14 and 20 kilometres away, respectively.

Transport

During the week it is served five times a day in each direction by

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route 245 linking it to

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Fermoy Fermoy () is a town on the Munster Blackwater, River Blackwater in east County Cork, Ireland. As of the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census, the town and environs had a population of approximately 6,700 people. It is located in the barony (Ir ...

and

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. At the weekend there are three buses each way. The number 18 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

Georgian style Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. It is named after the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover, George I, George II, Ge ...

. Evidence of its former economic activity exists in the form of a number of ruined mills and accompanying mill-streams in the environs of the village, as well as several large estates. A former

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parish priest A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or ...

of Clogheen,

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

, 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

Whiteboys The Whiteboys () were a secret Irish agrarian organisation in 18th-century Ireland which defended tenant-farmer land-rights for subsistence farming. Their name derives from the white smocks that members wore in their nighttime raids. Becaus ...

, formed in the parish, elements of the

Protestant Ascendancy The Protestant Ascendancy (also known as the Ascendancy) was the sociopolitical and economical domination of Ireland between the 17th and early 20th centuries by a small Anglicanism, Anglican ruling class, whose members consisted of landowners, ...

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

, 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, Clogheen, County Tipperary and built for Cornelius O'Callaghan, 1st Viscount Lismore in around 1810. It was the largest house built in Ireland by the noted English architect John Nash (a ...

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(I) O’Connell (; 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 mobilisation of Catholic Irelan ...

addressed a crowd of up to 50,000 people in the town on 28 September 1828, as part of a public demonstration to demand Catholic emancipation. Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of 1837 notes Clogheen as being located in the

barony Barony may refer to: * Barony, the peerage, office of, or territory held by a baron * Barony, the title and land held in fealty by a feudal baron * Barony (county division), a type of administrative or geographical division in parts of the British ...

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 Clanw ...

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

and

and the larger economies of

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, and

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. Clogheen gained national notoriety in 2000 when a former hotel, which was due to house

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s, was damaged by fire in an

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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.

Notable people

* Nan Joyce, the

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' rights activist, was born here in 1940. * Con Moulson (1906–1989), Irish international footballer * George Moulson (1914–1994), Irish international footballer * Reginald Polecarew, army officer * Edward Sackville-West, music critic

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