Cloone

Cloone
An Chluain
Village
Cloone
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°56′47″N 7°47′08″W / 53.946411°N 7.785514°W / 53.946411; -7.785514Coordinates: 53°56′47″N 7°47′08″W / 53.946411°N 7.785514°W / 53.946411; -7.785514
Country Ireland
Province Connacht
County County Leitrim
Elevation 82 m (269 ft)
Population (2006)
 • Urban 600
Time zone UTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Cloone (Irish: An Chluain) is a village in County Leitrim, Ireland. The village is located in the south of the county, just off the R201 regional road; its nearest town is Mohill. Its name is an Anglicised version of the Irish-language word cluain, meaning meadow.

Buildings

The bell tower of St James's Church of Ireland, Cloone, County Leitrim.

Buildings in the area include St Mary's Catholic Church (1971), the old Catholic Church now ruined (1837), and Fatima National School (1965).

The bell tower of St James's Church of Ireland is all that is left of a building that was erected by the Board of First Fruits in 1822. The tower was restored in the mid-1990s and a clock installed, which was manufactured by Samuel Elliott of Dublin. It is a local landmark from which some of the finest angling waters in the area can be seen off the Cloone to Ballinamore Road.

Amenities

The village has two pubs, Creegans & McKeons. It has a shop called O'Higgins. A Community centre, a Catholic Church and a school. Every Year an agricultural show is held.

History

The Justinian plague of Mohill barony badly affected the Cloone area in the 6th century. Bernard Kilrane died in 1900AD aged 111 years at Tawnymore near Cloone, was perhaps the oldest recorded Irishman. Throughout at least the 19th and 20th centurys, an impressive number of annual fairs were held at Cloone on- February 12, April 5, May 26, June 13 (or 14th), July 10, August 26, September 29, November 2, and December 20.[1][2] Back in 1925, Cloone village comprised 22 houses, 7 being licensed to sell alcohol.[3]

Historian Guy Beiner has called attention to a curious apocryphal incident remembered in local folk memory, whereby it was believed that during the rebellion of 1798, the chains that were used by the insurgents to draw the cannons of the French invasion army lead by General Humbert were allegedly stolen during a nigh stopover at Cloone and it was claimed that this theft resulted in the defeat of the rebels at the Battle of Ballinamuck.[4]


World War I (1914-1918) casualties from Cloone

A total of eleven men[5] from Cloone Village and the surrounding area are known to have died whilst on active service during the Great War (1914–1918), having given the locality as their place of birth or permanent domicile at the time of their enlistment. Those bodies recovered and identified were interred in various military cemeteries administered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Belgium (La Laiterie Military Cemetery), France (Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Cuinchy Communal Cemetery, Philosophe British Cemetery & Savy British Cemetery), Israel (Beersheba War Cemetery) and Turkey (Lala Baba Cemetery). However, those men who lost their lives at the Battle of the Somme with no known graves have their names recorded on the 'Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme' in France.

People

Cloone Agricultural Show

Every year on the outskirts of the village, Cloone Agricultural Show is held. Usually in the show there is cows, bouncy castles, rides, stalls, food, music and completions. It is a popular amenty in the village.


See also

References

Primary sources

  1. ↑ Longman 1819, pp. 405.
  2. ↑ Watsons 1830.
  3. ↑ Irish Free State 1925, pp. 31.
  4. ↑ Guy Beiner, "The Mystery of the Cannon Chains: Remembrance in the Irish Countryside", History Workshop Journal, 66 (2008), 81-106.
  5. ↑

Secondary sources

Historical

  • Longman (2011) [1819]. Traveller's New Guide Through Ireland, Containing a New and Accurate Description of the Roads (digitized from original in Lyon Public Library ed.). Longman.
  • Watsons (1830). The Gentleman's and citizen's almanack ... for the year (PDF). Dublin, Printed for S. Watson [etc.]
  • Irish Free State (1925). Intoxicating Liquor Commission Report (Report). Reports of Committees. The Stationery Office. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
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