CLEER (ST.), a parish in the hundred of WEST,
county of CORNWALL, 2 miles (N. by W.) from Liskeard,
containing 985 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese
of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £19. 6. 8., and
in the patronage of the Crown. The church is a
handsome and spacious structure. The parish contains
a great quantity of granite, locally termed moor-stone,
and porphyry 5 and a copper mine has recently been
opened. The river Fowey runs through it, and several
rivulets empty themselves near Looe: there are also a
few chalybeate springs, and an ancient Druidical monument,
called the Hurlers, consisting of rude upright
stones arranged in three circles, their centres in a right
line, and the middle circle the largest.