Country Ireland Time zone WET (UTC+0) Local time Tuesday 12:44 PM | County County Leitrim Elevation 82 m Province Connacht | |
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Cloone (Irish: An Chluain) is a village in County Leitrim, Ireland. The village is located in the south of the county, just off the R201 regional road; its nearest town is Mohill. Its name is an Anglicised version of the Irish-language word cluain, meaning meadow.
Contents
- Map of Cloone Co Leitrim Ireland
- Buildings
- History
- World War I 1914 1918 casualties from Cloone
- People
- References
Map of Cloone, Co. Leitrim, Ireland
Buildings
Buildings in the area include St Mary's Catholic Church (1971), the old Catholic Church now ruined (1837), and Fatima National School (1965).
The bell tower of St James's Church of Ireland is all that is left of a building that was erected by the Board of First Fruits in 1822. The tower was restored in the mid-1990s and a clock installed, which was manufactured by Samuel Elliott of Dublin. It is a local landmark from which some of the finest angling waters in the area can be seen off the Cloone to Ballinamore Road.
History
The Justinian plague of Mohill impacted Cloone in the 6th century. Bernard Kilrane died in 1900AD aged 111 years at Tawnymore near Cloone, was perhaps the oldest recorded Irishman. Throughout at least the 19th and 20th centurys, an impressive number of annual fairs were held at Cloone on- February 12, April 5, May 26, June 13 (or 14th), July 10, August 26, September 29, November 2, and December 20.
World War I (1914-1918) casualties from Cloone
A total of eleven men from Cloone Village and the surrounding area are known to have died whilst on active service during the Great War (1914–1918), having given the locality as their place of birth or permanent domicile at the time of their enlistment. Those bodies recovered and identified were interred in various military cemeteries administered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Belgium (La Laiterie Military Cemetery), France (Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Cuinchy Communal Cemetery, Philosophe British Cemetery & Savy British Cemetery), Israel (Beersheba War Cemetery) and Turkey (Lala Baba Cemetery). However, those men who lost their lives at the Battle of the Somme with no known graves have their names recorded on the 'Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme' in France.