Cloghane

An Clochán (anglicized as Cloghane; from clochán, a local type of dry-stone hut)[1] is a village and townland on the Dingle Peninsula of County Kerry, Ireland, at the foot of Mount Brandon. In 1974 the village was added to the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking region).[2] 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). 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.

An Clochán was the subject of a controversial and influential anthropological study by Nancy Scheper Hughes in the early 1970s, published as "Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland".[3]

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. S.I. No. 192/1974 — Gaeltacht Areas Order, 1974
3. Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (1977). Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520224803.