Cloughjordan
Cloch Shiurdáin | |
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Town | |
 Cloughjordan town centre | |
  Cloughjordan Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°56′25″N 8°02′08″W / 52.94028°N 8.03556°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Tipperary |
| Elevation | 380 m (1,250 ft) |
| Population | 701 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | R9761087713 |
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Cloughjordan, officially Cloghjordan[2] (/klɒxˈdʒɔːrdən/ klokh-JOR-dən, Irish: Cloch Shiurdáin, meaning 'Siurdán's stone or castle'), is a town in County Tipperary in Ireland. It is in the barony of Ormond Lower, and it is also a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe.[3]
The town is situated in the north-western part of Tipperary close to the border with County Offaly. It is almost equidistant from Nenagh, Roscrea and Birr and is close to Ireland's largest river, the Shannon, and Lough Derg.
Poet and Easter Rising leader Thomas MacDonagh, a native of Cloughjordan, described it as a place "in calm of middle country".
Cloghjordan has three Christian churches: one Roman Catholic (SS Michael and John's, built in 1898), Church of Ireland (St Kieran's, 1837) and Methodist (1875).
It is in the Dáil constituency of Tipperary.[4] From 2016 to 2020 it was in the Offaly constituency.[5] As of the 2022 census, Cloghjordan had a population of 701 people.[1]
- ^ a b "Census Mapping - Towns: Cloughjordan - Population Snapshot". visual.cso.ie. Central Statistics Office. April 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Cloch Shiurdáin/Cloghjordan". Logainm.ie. Archived from the original on 13 October 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
- ^ Parishes of Killaloe Diocese. Archived 27 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017, Schedule (No. 39 of 2017, Schedule). Act of the Oireachtas. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 17 May 2022.
- ^ Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013, Schedule (No. 7 of 2013, Schedule). Act of the Oireachtas. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 24 January 2022.