Clogher

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clogher, from 541 m² to 274,486 m² (27.45 ha, 67.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Clogher in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Clogher in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Clogher.

Recorded monuments

• RO010-008 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Marked faintly as a circular feature (diam. c. 20-25m) only on the 1898 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on level wet ground near the avenue leading to Moylung House, c. 400m to the SSE. This is a tree-ring with mature deciduous trees. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 5 June 2015

• RO010-009 Church
  Description

  Marked as a church on a Longfield estate maps of 1811 in NLI (MS. 21.F.44 (41); MS. 16. D. 16) and described in gothic script as an RC Chapel on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on rough ground with rock outcrop, it is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-010001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In 1487 Aedh Roe O'Donnell demolished the castle of the sons of Rory Mac Dermot (KM 1478-86) at Baile na hUamha (AFM vol. 4, 1153), but it was re-built, perhaps at a different location (see RO010-033----) in 1492 by the sons of Aedh (KM 1458-65) (AFM vol. 4, 1199). It was plundered by the Earl of Kildare in 1512 and captured and destroyed by O'Donnell again in 1527 (AFM vol. 5, 1317, 1391). In 1562 the Sliocht Eoghan (KM 1533-4), in their struggle for power with their uncle Rory (KM 1549-68), brought gallowglasses into Moylurg and burned Baile na hUamha (ALC 2, 384). By this time the castle and lands were rented by descendants of Dermot Ruadh of Tir Tuathail, and the castle was confirmed to another descendent, Cathal Mac Fergainm, in 1617. By 1635 the lands had reverted to Brian Óg Mac Dermot (Chief 1603-36). (Mac Dermot 1996, 123-4, 142, 296, 456) Situated on a low N-S promontory, jutting N and overlooking lower marshy ground to the W, N and E. It consists of the base of a rectangular tower (int. dims 11m N-S; 5.65m E-W) defined by the foundations of walls (Wth 2.5m; H 0.8m) situated about half way along the W side of a triangular (dims c. 70m N-S; 10m E-W at N; c. 30m E-W at S) bawn (RO010-010002-), which is defined by the natural scarps at E and W and the foundations of a wall (Wth 1m; L3m) and a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 5.3m; H 0.3m) at S (L 23m) which has the base of a circular corner tower (int. diam. 2m) defined by a masonry wall (Wth 1.6m; H 0.3m) at its W end. Ballynahoogh castle (RO010-033----) is c. 1km to the SSW, and standing stone (RO010-011----) is c. 140m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-010002 Bawn
  Description

  A Mac Dermot castle with references from 1487 to 1617. This is a triangular (dims c. 77m N-S; 10m E-W at N; c. 30m E-W at S) bawn with the castle (RO010-010001-) at it N end defined by the foundations of a wall at E (Wth 1m; L 3m) and a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 5.3m; H 0.3m) at S (L 23m) with the base of a circular corner tower (int. diam. 2m) defined by a masonry wall (Wth 1.6m; H 0.3m) at its W end. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-029 Crannog
  Description

  Marked as a small island on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and now attached to the centre of the N shore of Clogher Lough (dims c. 1 km E-W; c. 100-200m N-S). Oval overgrown cairn (dims 22.5m E-W; 10m N-S; H 0.5-0.7m) composed of large boulders covered with a layer of earth, but there is no evidence of timber construction. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-031 Crannog
  Description

  Towards the E end of Clogher Lough (dims c. 1km E-W; c. 100-200m N-S) and now attached to the NE shore. Oval overgrown area (dims 27m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE; H 0.5-0.7m) composed of earth and stones. Three wooden posts are visible underwater at WNW. Toberlonaun holy well (RO010-032----) is on the S shore c. 170m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached cruciform three-bay single-storey with half basement house, built c.1820, with single-storey extension to north-west. Now in use as a private dwelling. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and decorative timber bargeboards to eaves. Coursed stone walls. Square-headed window openings with sandstone lintels, limestone sills and tripartite timber sash windows. Timber panelled door set in gabled entrance porch with sandstone lintel. Located close to the shores of Clogher Lough.

• Moylurg House, country house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey country house over half-basement house, built c.1800, now in use as house, with two-storey extension to north-facing side elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and limestone eaves course. Pebble-dashed walls with tooled limestone quoins and plinth course. Basement filled in to side elevations. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills, replacement uPVC windows and ashlar surrounds. Wyatt windows to front elevation. Segmental-headed doorway with ashlar surround, stained-glass fanlight and sidelights and timber panelled door, approached by limestone steps. Decorative timber engaged fluted colonnettes flanking door. U-plan range of outbuildings to yard to north of house, comprising L-plan two-storey range with hipped slate roof and roughcast rendered walls and single-storey range with pitched slate roof. Remains of ha-ha wall to west of walled garden. Walled garden to west of house with decorative cast-iron railings, and decorative cast-iron entrance gates with carved stone piers to north.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Clogher, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clogher.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Clogher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Clogher · An Clochar

Area

1,218,147 m² (121.81 ha, 301.01 acres)

Civil parish

Estersnow, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Rushfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

402 people lived in 151 households in the Rushfield electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardkeenagh, Cavetown or Ballynahoogh, Estersnow, Glooria, Tullyboy, Tullyvohaun

Placenames

Clogher on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.