Clooney, Kilcronaghan civil parish

Townland in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

54°48′40″N 6°41′15″W / 54.8111°N 6.6874°W / 54.8111; -6.6874Sovereign stateUnited KingdomCountryNorthern IrelandCountyCounty LondonderryBaronyLoughinsholinCivil parishKilcronaghanPlantation grantDrapers Company and freeholdsFirst recorded1609Government

• CouncilMid Ulster District • WardTobermoreArea

^[1]

• Total398.65 acres (161.33 ha)Irish grid refH844967

Clooney (locally [ˌkloːni] and [ˌkloni], from Irish An Chluanaidh, meaning 'the meadow'^[2]) is a townland lying within the civil parish of Kilcronaghan, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It lies in north-east of the parish and is bounded in the north by the Moyola River as well as the parish of Termoneeny. It is bounded by the following townlands; Ballynahone Beg, Ballynahone More, Gortamney, Moyesset, and Tobermore. It was apportioned to the Drapers company as well as freeholds.^[3]

The townland was part of Tobermore electoral ward of the former Magherafelt District Council, however in 1926 it was part of Tobermore district electoral division as part of the Maghera division of Magherafelt Rural District.^[4] It was also part of the historic barony of Loughinsholin.^[3]

History

John O'Donovan, who worked on the Ordnance Survey if the early 19th century, recommended that the townland of Clooney be spelt as "Cloan", however his suggestion was scored out in the Ordnance Survey Name Books and replaced with "Cloney", which was based on the apparent usage of the time. At a later stage it was again revised to the modern spelling "Clooney".^[2]

The townland appears to have been originally known along the lines of Ballynecloney (from Irish Baile na Cluana, meaning 'townland of the meadow'), with variations of this spelling used in various sources from 1609 until 1657.^[2]

Population
Year	Pop.
1841	205 ^[5]
1851	193 ^[5]
1861	164 ^[5]
1871	125 ^[5]
1881	95 ^[5]
1891	83 ^[6]
1901	75 ^[6]
1911	79 ^[4]
1926	85 ^[4]

Size (acres, roods, poles)
Year	a, r, p
1851	413, 1, 38 ^[7]
1881	398, 3, 1 ^[5]
1901	398, 3, 1 ^[6]
1926	400, 1, 38 ^[4]

Earlier recorded forms^[2]^[8]
Year	Form
1609	B-neclouy (E.C.)
1613	Ba-ne Clon
1613	Ballmeclom (Charter)
1654	Belliclan
1657	Ballinacleny
1659c	Clone, ye ¹/₂ towne of
1663	Cloane
1767	Clooney
1813	Cloan
_{(E.C.) - Escheated Counties Map 1609 (Charter) - Charter of Londonderry 1613}

References

^ Northern Ireland Environment Agency. "NIEA Map Viewer". Archived from the original on 24 November 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Toner, Gregory: Place-Names of Northern Ireland, page 117. Queen's University of Belfast, 1996, ISBN 0-85389-613-5
^ ^a ^b Notes on the Place Names of the Parishes and Townlands of the County of Londonderry, 1925, Alfred Moore Munn, Clerk of the Crown and Peace of the City and County of Londonderry
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d HistPop; County and County Borough of Londonderry, 1926, page 27
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f HistPop; Area, population and number of houses, Vol. III, Ireland, 1881, page 698
^ ^a ^b ^c HistPop; Area, houses, and population, Vol. III [Part 2], Ireland, 1901 Page 35
^ HistPop; County of Londonderry, 1851, page 241
^ Place Names NI - Clooney