placenamesClogh
An Chloch
Clogh, locally Clough, is a small Laois village whose churchyard preserves a link with the Gothic Revival.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Chloch · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clogh · English · main form
- Clough · English · main form · local name
Place & story
A village along the road
Laois County Council describes Clough as a late eighteenth-century village northeast of Rathdowney. Its buildings form a dispersed settlement stretching between the church and school, with a community centre, graveyard and public house among its facilities. [2]
Saint Canice’s Church
The local heritage leaflet identifies George Coppinger Ashlin as the architect of Saint Canice’s. It records an 1871 foundation stone and a possible completion date of 1877. The Phelan family of San Francisco donated stained glass in 1875, made by Mayer & Co. of Munich: a connection between the parish and emigrants abroad. [3]
The Fitzpatrick memorial
A separate mortuary chapel was designed by A. W. N. Pugin in 1852 to house Richard Wilson Fitzpatrick’s tomb. After Pugin’s death, J. J. McCarthy supervised and completed the work, with Beardwood as builder. The Irish Architectural Archive records that the chapel was demolished, but its table memorial survives in the churchyard. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Clarmallagh
- Civil parish
- Bordwell
- Coordinates
- 52.88798, -7.52455 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 131217 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clogh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Laois County Development Plan: Section 7.3 Clough · Laois County Council
- Clough Heritage Leaflet, page 4 · Clough heritage leaflet, published by Eamon Sinnott
- Clough Fitzpatrick Mortuary Chapel, works record 60244 · Irish Architectural Archive, Dictionary of Irish Architects
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.