placenamesCloghran
Clochrán
An older parish landscape acquired prominent modern buildings as Dublin’s airport developed at Collinstown and Corballis.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Clochrán · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cloghran · English · main form
Place & story
The former parish church
Cloghran’s parish church was rebuilt in 1712 on the site of an earlier structure. The Church of Ireland’s archival introduction describes it as a modest building seating about a hundred people. A glebe house followed in 1812, supported by the Board of First Fruits. Cloghran united with Santry in 1872; the church later closed after the Second World War and was demolished by the remaining parishioners. [2]
The early airport terminal
The original airport terminal at Collinstown was built in 1937 in the International Modern style. Desmond Fitzgerald’s team included Dermot O’Toole, Daithí Hanley, Charles Aliaga Kelly, Kevin Barry and Harry Robson. The curved, four-storey building combined repeated horizontal glazing with cantilevered terraces and promenades facing the airfield. Its form made the expanding world of aviation visible through a strongly modern architectural design within Cloghran’s surroundings. [3]
Our Lady Queen of Heaven
A different modern building joined the airport landscape in 1964: the Catholic Church of Our Lady Queen of Heaven at Corballis. Reinforced concrete and concrete-brick cladding formed a rectilinear church with a separate bell tower and entrance courtyard. The nave roof rises above the side aisles, admitting clerestory light. Timber ceiling panels, stained glass and small glazed Stations of the Cross provided distinctive details within its restrained interior. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cloghran. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- The Registers of Cloghran: a brief history of the parish and church · Representative Church Body Library, Church of Ireland
- Dublin Airport terminal, NIAH 11349006 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Dublin Airport church, NIAH 11349001 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Our Lady Queen of Heaven church near Cloghran illustration: based on a Our Lady Queen of Heaven seen across a building site by Eric Jones. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
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