Cloughjordan
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Cloughjordan Cloch Shiurdáin
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 Cloughjordan
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| Coordinates: 52°56′25″N 8°02′08″W / 52.94028°N 8.03556°WCoordinates: 52°56′25″N 8°02′08″W / 52.94028°N 8.03556°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Tipperary |
| Elevation | 380 m (1,250 ft) |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
| Irish Grid Reference | R9761087713 |
Cloughjordan, officially Cloghjordan (/klɒkˈdʒɔːrdən/ klok-JOR-dən, Irish: Cloch Shiurdáin, meaning "Siurdán's stone"), is a town in County Tipperary in Ireland. It is in the barony of Ormond Lower, and it is also a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe.
The town is situated in the north-western part of Tipperary close to the Offaly border. It is almost equidistant from Nenagh, Roscrea and Birr and is close to Ireland's largest river, the Shannon, and Lough Derg.
Poet and patriot Thomas MacDonagh, a native of Cloughjordan, described it as a place "in calm of middle country".
Unusually for a town of its size (the 2002 Census Records places the population at 431), it has three churches – Roman Catholic (SS Michael and John's, built in 1898), Church of Ireland (St Kieran's, 1837) and Methodist (1875).
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