Cloghane
An Clochán (anglicized as Cloghane; from clochán, a local type of dry-stone hut)[1] is a Gaeltacht village and townland on the Dingle Peninsula of County Kerry, Ireland, at the foot of Mount Brandon. In 1974 the village was added to the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking region).[2] It has a population of 297 (2011 Census).
An Clochán
Cloghane | |
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Village | |
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  An Clochán Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°13′49″N 10°11′45″W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Kerry |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 297 |
| Irish Grid Reference | Q505112 |
| An Clochán is the only official name. | |
Cloghane and Brandon (An Clochán agus Cé Bhréanainn) are jointly twinned with the village of Plozévet in Brittany (France). The village is set at the foot of Mount Brandon, on the north of the Dingle Peninsula and overlooking Brandon Bay. The village is on the Wild Atlantic Way tourism trail.
An Clochán was the subject of a controversial and influential anthropological study by Nancy Scheper Hughes in the early 1970s, published as "Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland".[3]
History
According to A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis, the town's population stood at around 222 people in 1837.[4]
References
- A. D. Mills, 2003, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford University Press
- S.I. No. 192/1974 — Gaeltacht Areas Order, 1974
- Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (1977). Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520224803.
- Lewis, Samuel (1837). A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. S. Lewis and Co.
