placenamesMagheracloone
Machaire Cluana
Saint Molua’s Church at Camaghy preserves evidence of nineteenth-century building and enlargement.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Machaire Cluana · Irish · main form · validated name
- Magheracloone · English · main form
Place & story
A dated church and later chancel
Saint Molua’s Church of Ireland church at Camaghy carries a stone plaque dating the building to 1824 and naming the vicar, R. M. Cumming. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records a two-bay nave and a square tower with three stages, battlements and corner pinnacles. The chancel and vestry were added in 1891. [2]
The church retains timber windows with Y-shaped tracery, a western gallery reached by stairs in the entrance porch, and an exposed timber king-post roof. Its surrounding graveyard contains early stone grave markers. Together the dated plaque, later additions and surviving fittings make the building a record of successive phases of local church provision. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Magheracloone. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint Molua’s Church (Magheracloone), Camaghy, NIAH 41403301 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Knocknacran gypsum mine near Magheracloone, as photographed in April 2006 illustration: based on a Knocknacran Gypsum Mine by Mike Simms. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-06-28. How this page was prepared.