A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
An Chloichín· Irish · main form · validated name
Clogheen· English · main form
Place & story
People & connections
Nicholas Sheehy's ministry and execution
Father Nicholas Sheehy ministered in the parishes later associated with Clogheen and Burncourt. In the early 1760s the district became a centre of Whiteboy agitation over conditions affecting rural tenants. Sheehy opposed disputed tithe demands and the collection of church rates. He faced several prosecutions before being acquitted on a rebellion-related charge in 1766. Immediately afterwards he was tried for the alleged murder of the informer John Bridge, whose body had not been found. Convicted at Clonmel, he was executed there on 15 March 1766. His burial place at nearby Shanrahan later attracted pilgrimage, reflecting his lasting importance in Catholic memory.[2]
A workhouse built for five hundred
Clogheen's union workhouse admitted its first residents on 29 June 1842. Designed by George Wilkinson, architect to the Poor Law Commissioners, it was intended to accommodate five hundred people. The building cost £5,230, with a further £935 spent on fittings. During the Famine an addition to the infirmary provided space for forty-five fever patients by May 1847. The women's wing was extended in 1850. These dated changes record the pressure on a purpose-built institution as the need for relief and medical care grew.[3]
Nursing and teaching after the Famine
Three Sisters of Mercy arrived from Cahir in 1883 to work in the workhouse hospital. Two years later others came to teach in the girls' and infants' school. The convent foundation stone was laid in 1886. When the workhouse was burned during the Civil War, its fever-hospital unit survived and continued to provide care, later becoming Saint Teresa's Hospital. The congregation also developed schooling in the town, with a new school near the convent in 1910. Their local history connects education and nursing across successive uses of the workhouse site.[4]
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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Clogheen — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
Clogheen, South Tipperary — Census town, CSO 2006 report
2002–2006: census town
509people · 2006
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Clogheen, South Tipperary — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
Clogheen, South Tipperary — Census town, CSO 1996 report
1991–1996: census town
518people · 1996
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Clogheen, South Tipperary — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Clogheen, Tipperary — Census town, CSO 1986 report
1981–1986: census town
502people · 1986
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Clogheen, Tipperary — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
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Clogheen, South Tipperary
Published census settlement populations
478people · 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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