{{short description|Barony in County Laois, Ireland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Use Irish English|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox settlement <!-- See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields and descriptions --> | name = Clandonagh | native_name = <small>''Clann Donnchadha'' (Irish)</small> | settlement_type = Barony | image_skyline = OCBorrisInOssory 055w.jpg | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = Round tower and church in Borris-in-Ossory | image_map =Baronies of Laois.jpg | map_alt = | map_caption = Barony map of Queen's County, 1900; Clandonagh is peach-coloured and in the southwest. | subdivision_type = Sovereign state | subdivision_name = Republic of Ireland | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = Leinster | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name2 = Laois | area_magnitude = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 176.98 | area_total_sq_mi = 68.33 | area_land_km2 = | area_land_sq_mi = | area_water_km2 = | area_water_sq_mi = | area_water_percent = | area_note = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | elevation_ft = }}
'''Clandonagh''' ({{Langx|ga|Clann Donncha}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/127|title=Clann Donncha/Clandonagh|website=Logainm.ie}}</ref>) is a barony in County Laois (formerly called ''Queen's County'' or ''County Leix''), Republic of Ireland. A barony was a historical subdivision of a county; mainly cadastral rather than administrative.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.townlands.ie/laois/clandonagh/|title=Clandonagh|website=www.townlands.ie}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl/LEX|title=Genuki: County Laois (Queens), Laois (Queens)|website=www.genuki.org.uk}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DbI4AQAAMAAJ&q=Clandonagh+%22queen%27s+county%22&pg=PA203|title=A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland: Comprising the Several Counties; Cities; Boroughs; Corporate, Market, and Post Towns; Parishes; and Villages; with Historical and Statistical Descriptions: Embellished with Engravings of the Arms of the Cities, Bishoprics, Corporate Towns, and Boroughs; and of the Seals of the Several Municipal Corporations|first=Samuel|last=Lewis|date=1 January 1849|publisher=S. Lewis and Company|via=Google Books}}</ref>
==Etymology== Clandonagh barony is named after the Ó Donnchadha (Dunphy) clan who ruled the area during the Middle Ages.
==Geography== Clandonagh is in the southwest corner of Laois; it is bordered by Upper Woods to the north, Clarmallagh to the east, County Kilkenny to the south and County Tipperary to the west. The Erkina River flows through it, and the Slieve Bloom Mountains are in its north.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.libraryireland.com/Atlas/Queens.php|title=Queen's County (Laois)|website=www.libraryireland.com}}</ref>
==History== Clandonagh was one of three traditional subunits of Upper Ossory, which was extant as a barony by 1657 and formally abolished in 1846, and divided into Clandonagh, Upper Woods and Clarmallagh.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1HMuAAAAMAAJ&q=Clandonagh&pg=PA100|title=The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland: Adapted to the New Poor-law, Franchise, Municipal and Ecclesiastical Arrangements, and Compiled with a Special Reference to the Lines of Railroad and Canal Communication, as Existing in 1814-45|date=1 January 1846|publisher=A. Fullarton and Company|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dkA9AQAAMAAJ&q=Clandonagh&pg=PA1144|title=Thom's Directory of Ireland|date=1 January 1878|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GjxEAQAAMAAJ&q=Clandonagh+%22queen%27s+county%22&pg=PA65|title=A.D. 431-1056. Ed. by W.M. Hennessy|date=1 January 1887|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|via=Google Books}}</ref> The name refers to the "Clan Dunphy", referring to the Ó Donnchadha, who claimed descent from Donnchad Midi (AD 733–797).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sloinne.ie/surname/ga/o-donnchadha/|title=Sloinne|website=www.sloinne.ie}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.libraryireland.com/names/od/o-donnchadha.php|title=Ó Donnchadha - Irish Names and Surnames|website=www.libraryireland.com}}</ref> They were related to the Fitzpatricks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.libraryireland.com/Pedigrees1/o-murphy-4-heremon.php|title=O'Murphy (No.4) family genealogy - Irish Pedigrees|website=www.libraryireland.com}}</ref>
Clan Moroghoe migrated from Clandonagh to their seat in County Cork in 1709.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.libraryireland.com/Pedigrees1/o-murphy-5-heremon.php|title=O'Murphy (No.5) family genealogy - Irish Pedigrees|website=www.libraryireland.com}}</ref>
It is referred to in the topographical poem ''Tuilleadh feasa ar Éirinn óigh'' (Giolla na Naomh Ó hUidhrín, d. 1420): <poem>''O'Cearḃaill dar corcraḋ croinn,'' ''O'Donnchaḋa dreaċ dioghoinn,'' ''Sloiġ liag as don tár toraid,'' ''Dá riġ iad a haonchonair.''</poem> ("O'Cearbhaill for whom trees are ruddy, O'Donnchadha of honest aspect, Whose rocklike hosts possess the fruitful land, Are two kings of the same territory.")<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YMk_AAAAcAAJ&q=500&pg=PR1|title=The Topographical Poems of John O'Dubhagain and Giolla-na-naomh O'Huidhrin: Edited in the original Irish from MSS. in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, with translation, notes, and introductory dissertations, by John O'Donovan|first=John|last=O'Dubhagain|date=1 January 1862|publisher=A. Thom.|via=Google Books}}</ref> This refers to Ely O'Carroll, located to the immediate west of Clandonagh.
==List of settlements==
Below is a list of settlements in Clandonagh barony: *Aghaboe *Ballybrophy *Borris-in-Ossory *Donaghmore *Errill *Rathdowney<ref name="auto"/>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{County Laois}} Category:Baronies of County Laois Category:1846 establishments in Ireland