Cloch Shiurdáin

Cloughjordan emerged as a Norman settlement in the late 12th and 13th centuries when the De Marisco family, of Somerset origin, were granted lands in Lower Ormond under King Henry II's overlordship of the Butlers. According to local legend, the village's name originated from a crusading De Marisco knight who returned from the Holy Land with a stone from the River Jordan, which he incorporated i...