These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
Cluain Droichead· Irish · main form · validated name
Clondrohid· English · main form
Place & story
Saint Abina’s timber interior
Saint Abina’s Catholic church bears the date 1877. Its long, simple nave has round-headed windows and a porch at the entrance, with a stone bellcote above the gable. Inside, carved timber roof trusses with arch braces and a timber gallery give the building a more elaborate character than its restrained exterior suggests. The national architectural inventory notes that an earlier church, with a cruciform plan, appears on the first Ordnance Survey map of the 1840s.[2]
Clondrohid at Clonturk Park
Clondrohid represented Cork in the 1891 All-Ireland football final against Dublin’s Young Irelands at Clonturk Park in Drumcondra. The GAA records the result as Dublin 2–1 to Cork 1–9, a score that needs the rules of its time to be understood: a goal then outweighed any number of points. Cork objected and a replay was arranged but never played. The final remains part of the history commemorated by the plaque unveiled at Clonturk Park in 2024.[3]
People & connections
A writer from the wider parish
Peadar Ó Laoghaire, widely known as an tAthair Peadar, was born in 1839 at Liscarrigane in Clondrohid civil parish. His parents were a small farmer and a teacher, and he grew up with both Irish and English. Ordained in 1867, he later became a prolific author during the Gaelic revival. His best-known books include Séadna, published in 1904, and the autobiography Mo scéal féin, published in 1915. His writing gave the spoken Irish of ordinary people a lasting place in modern literature.[4][5]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Clondrohid — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
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Clondrohid, Cork
Published census settlement populations
179people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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