an episcopal town of Ireland, in the county of Tyrone, and province of Ulster. It sends two members to parliament. In a very early age an abbey of regular canons, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was founded here. St Patrick is said to have presided over the church of Clogher; and having appointed St Kertenn to be his successor, he resigned this government, and went to Armagh, where he founded his celebrated abbey. On the 20th of April 1396, a dreadful fire burnt to the ground the church, the two chapels, the abbey, the court of the bishops, and thirty-two other buildings, with all the sacerdotal vestments, utensils, &c. belonging to the bishop's chapter and church. In the year 1610, on the 24th of July, whilst George Montgomery was bishop of Clogher, king James annexed this abbey and its revenues to that see. The fee (valued in the king's books at £300 per annum by extent returned 15th James I.) is reputed to be worth £4000 annually. W. Long. 7° 30' N. Lat. 54° 16'.