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Clifden is a ghost town in northeast Medina County, in the U.S. state of Texas.

History
In 1878 Robert Eagar filed the plat for Clifden in Castroville, Texas, which was then the county seat of Medina. Robert Eagar and his wife Sarah Eagar had purchased the land in August of 1871 with the desire to develop a town. Clifden stood at the confluence of the east and west forks of the San Geronimo Creek, some few hundred yards north of the blue hole noted in Texas cavalry maps and two miles east of the famed Gallagher Ranch. The general coordinates were chosen as to make it the halfway between San Antonio, Texas and Bandera, Texas for the twice-weekly stagecoach on Postal Route 31136. The only remaining original structures to the town include the Post Office, water well and front step rock to the Clifden House Hotel. Additional historic structures built after the closing of the town also stand on the premises, including the present house constructed in 1902 by E.C. Smith. The post office closed in 1909, though county maps continued to reference the site as late as 1912.