Cloone
Cloone ( Irish : Cluain, German: "meadow", "anger") is a place in County Leitrim in the north central interior of the Republic of Ireland .
The place
Cloone is an Anglicized form of the Irish name Cluain .
The place is near the regional road R201 in the south of County Leitrim, a little northeast of Mohill and exactly south of Ballinamore . According to the 2002 Census, the population of Cloone is given as 600 people.
In Cloone, the foundations and some fragments of what is probably the only high cross in Leitrim are still in the old cemetery .
Cloone houses the remains of the old Catholic Church from 1837 and the restored bell tower of a Church of Ireland church from 1822.
Cloone should not be confused with the slightly larger Cloonee in County Longford .
Personalities
- Desmond Chapman-Huston (1884–1952), author and publicist, born in Annaghmaconway near Cloone
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map of Ireland (can be enlarged greatly)
- ↑ Cloonee, Longford rural area, Census 2006, p 36, No. 45 ( Memento of March 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English; PDF; 230 kB)
Coordinates: 53 ° 55 ′ N , 7 ° 52 ′ W