Clogh, County Kilkenny

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Clogh
An Chloch
Village
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Thatched building in Clogh
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Clogh
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°51′37″N7°09′46″W / 52.86035°N 7.16281°W / 52.86035; -7.16281
Country Ireland
Province Leinster
County County Kilkenny
Population
 (2016) [1]
344
Time zone UTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid Reference S5627678602

Clogh (Irish : An Chloch) is a village, [2] and namesake of an electoral district [3] in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is also a townland in the civil parish of Castlecomer in the ancient barony of Fassadinin. [4]

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Location

Clogh is on the R426 road near Castlecomer. The village is 27 km north of Kilkenny city, 16 km from Carlow town, 25 km from Portlaoise, and 20 km from Athy to the north.

Clogh is in the Electoral Division of Clogh, in the civil parish of Castlecomer, in the Barony of Fassadinin, County of Kilkenny. Clogh borders the following townlands: Aughatubbrid or Chatsworth, Cloneen, Coolnaleen, Crutt, Kill, Loon, Moneenroe, Tourtane. The Electoral Division covers an area of 0.83 square miles with a population of 1,127.[ citation needed ]

History

In 1837 it lay along the road from Castlecomer on the road to Athy. [2] It containing 116 houses (mostly thatched) and 582 inhabitants. Most people were employed in the neighbouring collieries. [2] It had a constabulary police station. [2] In 1837, the district of Clogh comprised parts of the parishes of Castlecomer and Rathaspeck. [2] The Roman Catholic chapel for the district was in Clogh. [2]

The village takes its name from the Irish An Chloc which means "stone" or "stone building". The original townsland name was Magleitid (Broad plain). History tells of a castle sited in the "Castle field" in the townland of Coultha; this may be where Clogh derived its name.

The last shop in Clogh closed in April 2024. [5]

Demographics

As of the Central Statistics Office's 2006 census, Clogh's population, including Chatsworth, was 351. This was a 9.7% change since 2002. [6] As of the 2016 census of Ireland, the population was 344. [1]

Clogh was once a densely populated rural area, mostly due to the employment given in the coal mines around the area.[ citation needed ] Coalmining began in the 1640s by Christopher Wandesforde, the coal produced was a high grade anthracite with low sulphur content. Situated in the Leinster coal–fields which spread into counties Laois and Carlow, by the late 1800s seven or eight mines existed, and in Deerpark mines opened in the 1920s and at its peak employed 600 people. When the mines closed in 1969, it was a blow to the communities of North Kilkenny.[ citation needed ] Many coal-mining families emigrated to Heckscherville, Pennsylvania during and after the Great Famine of 1845–1851.[ citation needed ] The Payne brothers who ran the coal pits came to the area of North Kilkenny and Laois to recruit miners for their mines.[ citation needed ] They provided transportation, employment and homes to those who agreed to move. The graveyard at St. Kierans in Heckscherville have some of these families interred.[ citation needed ]

Built heritage

The first church in Clogh was built on the site of the present church in the 13th century. This replaced the ancient church that stood at Kilpatrick. The present church was built in 1826. The graveyard is large and contains monuments, including one to Michael Fenlon who constructed the first Boulton & Watt steam engine for use in the nearby Doonane Colliery (1793/94). Fenlon was a lecturer in Trinity College, Dublin, he died at the young age of 36 years. Moneenroe Catholic Church was built in 1928 [7] and cost twelve thousand pounds with the local miners contributing six thousand pounds.[ citation needed ] The Colliery Church was consecrated in 1829 and serves the Church of Ireland Community in the area. [8]

There are three thatched buildigs left in Clogh with the National Inventory of Ireland numbers 12400203 (entry on Buildings of Ireland website), 12400205 (entry on Buildings of Ireland website) and 12400206 (entry on Buildings of Ireland website).

A water pillar at the village cross roads is still frequented regularly, and the source of the water is Church Well in the townland of Aughatubbrid or Chatsworth.

Public transport

Clogh can be reached from Mountmellick/ Poartlaoise or Kilkenny via Local Link bus 838 [9] or from Mountmellick or Carlow using Local Link 822 [10] .

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References

  1. 1 2 "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Clogh-Chatsworth". Census 2016. CSO. April 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lewis, Samuel (1837), "Clough, a village", A Topgrahical Dictionary of Ireland, vol. 1, London: Samuel Lewis & Co
  3. ↑ "Clogh (electoral district)". logainm.ie (in English and Irish). Irish placenames database. 2010. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  4. ↑ "Clogh (townland, Kilkenny)". logainm.ie (in English and Irish). Irish placenames database. 2010. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  5. ↑ "PICTURES: Kilkenny village bids fond farewell as last shop closes its door after 47 years". Kilkenny People. 28 April 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  6. ↑ "Table 12. Alphabetical list of Towns with their population, 2002 and 2006" (PDF). 2006 Census of Ireland. Central Statistics Office (Ireland). 2006.
  7. ↑ "Buildings of Ireland" . Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  8. ↑ "Buildings of Ireland" . Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  9. ↑ "Slievebloom Coaches" . Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  10. ↑ "Transport for Ireland" (PDF). Retrieved 19 June 2024.
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