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Clough
Sign in to savethumb|Old pump on Clough's former square Clough ( ; ) is a village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. The village, which is situated within the Newry, Mourne and Down area, had a population of 255 people as of the 2001 census.
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thumb|Old pump on Clough's former square Clough ( ; ) is a village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. The village, which is situated within the Newry, Mourne and Down area, had a population of 255 people as of the 2001 census.
==Etymology== A map of 1634 marked the village as Machaeracate and Clough Castle as (meaning "stone castle of the plain of the cat") or ("stone castle of the plain of battles"). These variants derive from a local legend associated with a large wildcat, or records of a battle (cath) in the area in the 12th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Clough” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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