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. 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).

An Clochán Cloghane
Village
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).^{[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

• List of towns and villages in Ireland

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.