placenamesCloghore
Cloich Óir
Cloghore's history includes a short-lived pottery, internationally connected china production and the concrete engineering of the Erne hydroelectric scheme.
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
- Cloich Óir · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cloghore · English · main form
Place & story
Johnny Flynn's pottery
Olga Clarke's account of Johnny Flynn records how the Belleek craftsman began making ceramics at his Cloghore home in 1932. He built a brick kiln and adapted machinery to form the fine clay strands used in woven baskets. His small pottery produced baskets, brooches and other giftware before he returned to Belleek in 1935. Surviving pieces carry a Clyhore mark. [2]
Cloghore china in a museum collection
The Hunt Museum preserves a later example of Cloghore's ceramic work: a Parian bone-china teacup in Sybil Connolly's Tiffany Weave design for Tiffany & Co. The museum identifies its manufacturer as Celtic Weave China Ireland Ltd. of Cloghore. The cup entered the museum in 2002 from Tommy and Patricia Daly, linking a locally manufactured object with an international designer and retailer. [3]
Hydroelectric engineering
Cliff Generating Station, within Cloghore townland, adds a different industrial chapter. Built between 1946 and the mid-1950s, its complex combines a reinforced-concrete dam, sluices and spillways with a steel-and-concrete generating hall. The station's large windows and flat-roofed structures belong to the functional architecture of twentieth-century power generation on the Erne. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cloghore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- The Forgotten History of Johnny Flynn's Cloghore Pottery, Newsletter 32/3, October 2011, pp. 68–70 · Olga Clarke / UK Belleek Collectors' Group
- Tiffany Weave Tea-cup — HM 2002.074.001 · The Hunt Museum
- Cliff Generating Station, Cloghore (Carrickboy) — NIAH 40910782 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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