placenamesCloverhill
Droim Caiside
Cloverhill’s surviving buildings connect a landed estate, a church funded by Mary Anne Sanderson and the former Great Northern Railway network.
The name
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
- Droim Caiside · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cloverhill · English · main form
Place & story
Francis Johnston’s country house
Cloverhill House was designed for the Sanderson family by Francis Johnston around 1799–1805, incorporating an earlier block built in 1758. The later house rose three storeys above a basement, with a formal entrance and a strongly modelled northern elevation. Although subsequently reduced to ruins, it remains part of a larger estate arrangement of outbuildings, a walled garden, gate lodges and parkland approaches. [2]
Mary Anne Sanderson’s church
Saint John's Church was constructed in the 1850s through the support of local landowner Mary Anne Sanderson, who intended it as a memorial to her father. Its 150th anniversary was celebrated in 2010 with a flower festival and the launch of Jonathan Cherry's history of the parish. The church's central position in Cloverhill reflects the Sanderson family's influence on the village as well as on the surrounding estate. [3]
Ballyhaise Junction at Drumbrawn
East of Cloverhill, Ballyhaise Junction station at Drumbrawn opened in 1885 on the Great Northern Railway's Clones–Cavan route, with a branch to Belturbet. Its complex included three platforms, a footbridge, a goods shed and a station master's house. Passenger services ended in 1957 and goods traffic in 1959. The surviving red-brick station, with contrasting brick bands and decorative roof details, records the railway's former reach into this district. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Tullygarvey
- Civil parish
- Annagh
- Coordinates
- 54.08242, -7.37347 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1393740 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cloverhill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cloverhill House,record40401507 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Cloverhill Celebrations,Church of Ireland Notes22May2010 · Church of Ireland,The Irish Times
- Ballyhaise Junction Railway Station,record40401512 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.