placenamesCloghoge
Clochóg
Cloghoge in Creggan parish can be followed through a family deed and the surveyors’ account of its fields and bogland.
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
- Clochóg · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cloghoge · English · main form
- Cloughoge · English · main form · local name
Place & story
A farm divided between generations
An indenture dated 14 October 1802 records Samuel Donaldson transferring interests in land at Cloghoge and neighbouring Freeduff to his son William. The document recites an earlier division of Alexander Donaldson’s Cloghoge farm between Samuel and Joseph. Alongside rents and family arrangements, it preserves practical rights: tenants were to retain access to turf-cutting ground and a route for taking their fuel away. The deed makes bogland part of the working farm economy as well as the family’s inheritance. [2]
Oats, potatoes and planted pasture
The nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey name book describes Cloghoge as a large townland crossed by minor roads, with bog and uncultivated ground alongside fields of oats and potatoes. Its surveyors also noted pasture around the Wallace and Donaldson residences, with trees and shrubs giving that part of the locality a different appearance. The account records contrasting uses of land within one townland, from small cultivated plots and fuel ground to more deliberately planted surroundings. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Orior Upper
- Civil parish
- Killevy
- Coordinates
- 54.10279, -6.59339 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 56877 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cloghoge. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Indenture of14October1802: Samuel and William Donaldson, Freeduff and Cloghoge · Original1802deed; transcription by Sharon Oddie Brown,2009
- Descriptive Remarks for Creggan Parish Ordnance Survey Name-Books, p103, Cloghoge(OSNBii24) · A.J.Hughes, Seanchas Ardmhacha15/1(1992), reproducing nineteenth-century survey remarks
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-12-20. How this page was prepared.