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Clogher

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Clogher (klŏkh`ər), town (1991 pop. 8,500), Co. Tyrone, central Northern Ireland, on the Blackwater River. A religious center since St. Patrick's time, Clogher is the seat of a Protestant bishop; its cathedral was rebuilt in the 18th cent. and restored in 1956. The cathedral of the Roman Catholic bishop of Clogher is at Monaghan, Republic of Ireland.


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The diocese of Clogher was not among the worst offenders in the recent Ryan Report into child abuse at clerical and State institutions.
Contributors identified only by name build on the work of the historical journal Clogher Record to discuss such aspects of the past 15 centuries as the earliest cult of Molaisse, the late medieval diocese, papal letters and Irish clergy before the Reformation, two poems on Patrick's Purgatory, social and political comment in the Lenten pastorals of Bishop Patrick McKenna from 1916 to 1922, and partition and the Catholic Church from about 1912 to 1928.
Boats from Kilkeel, Co Down, and Clogher Head, Co Louth, launched a joint rescue operation.
 
 
 
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