Cloghagaddy

Cloghagaddy
Irish: Cloch an Ghadaí
Irish grid reference	H466315
District	Fermanagh
County	County Fermanagh
Constituent country	Northern Ireland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ENNISKILLEN
Postcode district	BT92
Dialling code	028 677 51
Police	Northern Ireland
Fire	Northern Ireland
Ambulance	Northern Ireland
European Parliament	Northern Ireland
UK Parliament	Fermanagh and South Tyrone
NI Assembly	Fermanagh and South Tyrone
List of places: UK • Northern Ireland • Fermanagh

Cloghagaddy is a townland in South-Eastern County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

Area 135:1:12

Etymology

Cloughagaddy Registry of Freeholders of Fermanagh 1751

Cloughagaddy (Irish: Cloch an Ghadaí) mean “stone of the thief” (only 1 in Ireland)

When Dr P McKay of the Ulster Place Names project came to talk to us, he explained that the more accurate translation would be the "stone which hanged a man".

Cloughagaddy takes its name from a large stone on the East side where a thief was hanged. The stone is about the height of a man, terminating like a sugar loaf – a man stealing sheep was found hanged. A popular local saying “the sheep hung them over the stone”

Griffiths Valuation 1862

Occupier………………………….Lessor Joseph Mills…………………………….. Andrew Thompson H Os & l Alex Campbell……………………………John Johnston H Os & l Ellen Little………………………………..Andrew Thompson H Os & L Robert Little…………………………….. Andrew Thompson H Os & L James Forster……………………………. Alex Campbell H Os & L

1901 Census

Head of Family……………………Landholder if different Mark Little Joseph Mills

Surnames in 2005

Irwin           Downey            

Clogh Stone

At one time this was a well-known landmark in the angle between the Cloghagaddy road and the Golan Road. About 40 years ago, both roads were raised to make the junction safer with the result that the site of the stone is sunk below road level.

Photograph of the "stone of the thief"

This view was taken recently from the field for it is completely covered with ivy viewed when from the road. Here is the opinion of the surveyor for the Ordinance Survey 1835 in his record for Galloon parish.

“PAGAN ANTIQUITIES”
There are numerous small raths or forts all through the parish, but there is nothing remarkable in any of them. There is in Cloughagaddy townland very near to the parish boundary and a few chains north of the old road from Newtownbutler to Aghadrumsee, a large stone which gives the name to the townland called Cloghagaddy or “the thief’s stone”. The story is that a man of the name of Mulligan went to steal sheep on the mountain. He put one on his back with a foreleg on each side of his own neck, and tied the legs together, then, leaning against the stone to rest himself, the sheep plunged, got on the other side and so choked him.|Ordinance Survey 1835}}

Clogh Methodist Church

This little church no longer exists though the building now used as a farm building is now recognisable from the main road. It closed during the sixties because like many other similar churches there was not the population to support it. This little clip from the Impartial Reporter of 1939 is a reminder of the days when everyone was expected to take his or her part in providing a social gathering.

Reunion at Clough
Notwithstanding that the country was covered with snow there was a well filled house at the annual social meeting held in Clough Methodist Church, near Magheraveeley, on Thurs. 5th inst. Rev.Fredk. T.Parker presided. The following con-tributed to the programme-Solos, Miss Morrison, Lisnaskea; duets, Miss M’Anuff and Miss Plunkett, Lisnaskea; and Miss Johnston and Miss M’Cullagh; trio, the Misses Pheobe and Madge Elliott and Alice Armstrong; quartette, Misses Elliott and Armstrong, Rev.F.T..Parker and Mr James Elliott;choruses, Misses Elliott and Arnstrong, Rev.F.T.LParker, and Messrs. J. Kettyle and J. Elliott; recitations, Misses Minnie Johnston, Cissie Beacom, Beatrice Johnston, May Johnston, Ruby Beacom and Masters William Mayne, Albert Mayne and Jack Mayne; Addresses were delivered by Rev.R.J.Kyle,Lisnaskea.. Prizes were distributed to the Sunday school children by Miss Holmes, Lisnaskea. The accompanists were Miss Madge Elliott, Miss Alice Armstrong.

– Courtesy of the Impartial Reporter - 12th January 1939