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Recorded forms
Cloch Shiurdáin· Irish · main form · validated name
Cloghjordan· English · main form
Cloughjordan· English · main form · local name
Place & story
People & connections
Thomas MacDonagh’s Cloughjordan beginnings
Thomas MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan in 1878 to Joseph MacDonagh and Mary Louise Parker, both teachers. He later became a teacher, poet and university lecturer before signing the 1916 Proclamation. During the Easter Rising he was stationed at Jacob's biscuit factory in Dublin and was executed on 3 May 1916. The museum on Main Street occupies a former MacDonagh family home. Its permanent exhibition connects the nationally known revolutionary with his family background, while family papers preserved in the National Library offer another route into that history.[2]
Shopping accounts across generations
The museum's Living Heritage project records two household ledgers shared by Breda Mounsey, together with receipts and postcards covering 1899–1964. The books belonged to successive generations of the Guest family and recorded purchases from Williams' and Harty's shops. Customers retained these account books, and the retailer stamped them when payment was made. Williams' Main Street business combined grocery and ironmongery in the earlier period. The surviving records therefore document both family continuity and the practical relationship between a farming household and the shops supplying it.[3]
A hand-operated rope maker
Another object in the museum's family-history collection is a small rope-making device attributed by its owners to John Guest in the late nineteenth century. Hung from a gate or hook, it used three hooked strands and a turning handle to twist twine into stronger rope. The family's account recalls its use into the 1950s and 1960s and its survival in the old homestead. This is a documented family recollection attached to a surviving tool, showing how an ordinary farm task could leave evidence for later generations.[4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Cloughjordan — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
Cloughjordan, North Tipperary — Census town, CSO 2006 report
2002–2006: census town
394people · 2006
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Cloughjordan, North Tipperary — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
Cloughjordan, North Tipperary — Census town, CSO 1996 report
1991–1996: census town
447people · 1996
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Cloughjordan, North Tipperary — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Cloughjordan, Tipperary — Census town, CSO 1986 report
1981–1986: census town
499people · 1986
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Cloughjordan, Tipperary — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Cloughjordan, North Tipperary
Published census settlement populations
612people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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