placenamesGortaclare
Gort an Chláir
Gortaclare’s settlement pattern connects its crossroads with the church at nearby Dervaghroy.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Gort an Chláir · Irish · main form · validated name
- Gortaclare · English · main form
Place & story
Crossroads and community
The 1987–2002 Omagh Area Plan described Gortaclare/Moylagh as four clusters. It placed a shop and post office at Gortaclare crossroads, with Clogherney Presbyterian Church, its hall and Dervaghroy school forming another focus north of the main road. [2]
The meeting-house
Samuel Lewis recorded a Presbyterian meeting-house at Dervethroy in 1837, connected with the Synod of Ulster. His account distinguishes it from the established parish church and from the separate Associate Synod congregation at Seskinore. The meeting-house therefore belonged to a wider landscape of different congregations across Clogherny parish. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Omagh East
- Civil parish
- Clogherny
- Coordinates
- 54.52174, -7.21231 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414255 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Gortaclare. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Omagh Area Plan1987–2002,section96.1 · Department of the Environment,Planning Service
- Clogherny,ATopographicalDictionaryofIreland1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Clogherney Presbyterian Church near Gortaclare, as photographed in 2012 illustration: based on a Clogherney Presbyterian Church (side view) by Kenneth Allen. 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 2012-01-25. How this page was prepared.