Cloghane

An Clochán
Cloghane
Village
An Clochán is located in Ireland
An Clochán
An Clochán
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°13′49″N 10°11′45″W / 52.23041°N 10.19574°W / 52.23041; -10.19574
CountryIreland
ProvinceMunster
CountyCounty Kerry
Population
 (2011)
 • Total
297
Irish Grid ReferenceQ505112
An Clochán is the only official name.

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. It is also part of a civil parish of the same name.[2] In 1974 the village was added to the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking region).[3] It has a population of 297 (2011 Census).

Cloghane and Brandon (An Clochán agus Cé Bhréanainn) are jointly twinned with the village of Plozévet in Brittany (France).[citation needed] 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.[4]

An Clochán was the subject of a controversial[5] and influential anthropological study by Nancy Scheper-Hughes in the early 1970s, published as "Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland".[6]

History

According to A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis, the town's population stood at around 222 people in 1837.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ A. D. Mills, 2003, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford University Press
  2. ^ "An Clochán/Cloghane". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  3. ^ S.I. No. 192/1974 — Gaeltacht Areas Order, 1974
  4. ^ "Dingle Peninsula". Wild Atlantic Way.
  5. ^ Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (2000). "Ire in Ireland". Ethnography. 1 (1): 118–119. doi:10.1177/14661380022230660. ISSN 1466-1381. JSTOR 24047731.
  6. ^ Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (1977). Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520224803.
  7. ^ Lewis, Samuel (1837). A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. S. Lewis and Co.
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