Clogher

Clogher is an ancient church settlement in the valley of the River Blackwater, long the seat of a diocese covering a wide part of western Ulster. Tradition connects its foundation with Saint Macartan. The cathedral and abbey suffered fire in 1396, when the bishop's court and many other buildings were also destroyed. Centuries later, during the Confederate wars, Bishop Emer MacMahon played a military as well as a religious role: after Owen Roe O'Neill's death he was chosen to command the Confederate forces in Ulster.