St Patrick’s, Clogher

History

Clogher was a place of monastic and political significance before the Irish church was organised on diocesan lines in the twelfth century, and the diocese takes its name from it. The diocesan account records that it was along the River Blackwater, in this parish, that St Patrick conferred charge of the local church of Clogher upon St Macartan, named as the founder and first bishop of the see.

By the early fourteenth century Clogher was held as part of the bishop's mensa and took in most of the territory of the later Tyrone parishes. A synod was held at Clogher in 1587 to promulgate the decrees of the Council of Trent. St Patrick's Chair at Altadavan, formerly in the parish of Errigal Truagh, falls within the parish.