# Cullenagh

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{{Short description|Barony in County Laois, Ireland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
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| name                    = Cullenagh
| native_name             = <small>''Cuileannach'' ([Irish](/source/Irish_language))</small>
| settlement_type         = [Barony](/source/Barony_(Ireland))
| image_skyline           = Knockbaun - geograph.org.uk - 1254282.jpg
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| image_caption           =Hills at Knockbaun
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| map_caption             = Barony map of Queen's County, 1900; Cullenagh is green, in the south.
| subdivision_type        = [Sovereign state](/source/List_of_sovereign_states)
| subdivision_name        = [Ireland](/source/Republic_of_Ireland)
| subdivision_type1       = [Province](/source/Provinces_of_Ireland)
| subdivision_name1       =  [Leinster](/source/Leinster)
| subdivision_type2       = [County](/source/Counties_of_Ireland)
| subdivision_name2       =  [Laois](/source/County_Laois)
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'''Cullenagh''' or '''Cullinagh''' ({{Langx|ga|Cuileannach}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/124|title=Cuileannach/Cullenagh|website=Logainm.ie}}</ref>) is a [barony](/source/Barony_(Ireland)) in [County Laois](/source/County_Laois) (formerly called ''Queen's County'' or ''County Leix''), [Ireland](/source/Republic_of_Ireland).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P5kvAAAAYAAJ&q=cullinagh&pg=RA1-PA6|title=A New Universal Gazetteer|first=John|last=Marshall|date=11 July 2018|publisher=Phillips & Sampson|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MStDAAAAcAAJ&q=cullinagh&pg=PA87|title=Ireland Population: Abstract of Answers and Returns Under the Population Acts : Enumeration 1831; Ordered to be Printed 7 August 1833|date=11 July 2018|publisher=|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==Etymology==

The barony is named after the [Cullenagh Hills](/source/Cullenagh_Hills); located between [Abbeyleix](/source/Abbeyleix) and [Timahoe](/source/Timahoe), they rise to a height of {{Convert|317|m}} and contain the source of the [River Triogue](/source/River_Triogue). The name is believed to derive from Irish ''cuileann'', "[holly](/source/Ilex_aquifolium)."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/dublinuniversit38unkngoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/dublinuniversit38unkngoog/page/n666 594]|quote=cullinagh barony.|title=The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal|date=11 July 1861|publisher=W. Curry, jun., and Company|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

==Geography==
Cullenagh is located in southern County Laois, mostly east of the [River Nore](/source/River_Nore). The southern part (near the border with [County Kilkenny](/source/County_Kilkenny)) is hilly, called the Slieve Lough or Dysart Hills.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.libraryireland.com/Atlas/Queens.php|title=Queen's County (Laois)|website=www.libraryireland.com}}</ref>

==History==

Cullenagh formed part of the ancient kingdom of [Loígis](/source/Lo%C3%ADgis).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kuk1AQAAMAAJ&q=cullenagh&pg=PA302|title=The Book of Rights|first=John|last=O'Donovan|date=11 July 2018|publisher=Celtic society|via=Google Books}}</ref> The northern part was part of Tuath-Fiodhbhuidhe (territory of the O'Devoy)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/life-society/families-in-history/seven-septs-of-laois/odevoy-(odeevy)/|title=O'Devoy (O'Deevy)|website=www.askaboutireland.ie}}</ref> along with the southern part of [Maryborough West](/source/Maryborough_West).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R5FnAAAAMAAJ&q=cullinagh+barony|title=The Greatest of the Fenians: John Devoy and Ireland|first=Terence A. M.|last=Dooley|date=1 January 2003|publisher=Wolfhound Press|isbn=9780863279072|via=Google Books}}</ref>

The southern part was called ''Gailine'', and is mentioned in the topographical poem ''[Tuilleadh feasa ar Éirinn óigh](/source/Tuilleadh_feasa_ar_%C3%89irinn_%C3%B3igh)'' ([Giolla na Naomh Ó hUidhrín](/source/Giolla_na_Naomh_%C3%93_hUidhr%C3%ADn), d. 1420): 
<poem>''Gailine na sreaḃ soiċleaċ''
''DO'Cheallaiġ ní coṁoighṫeaċ''
''Trom ag fiaḋacg an fine''
''Ar fonn ngrianach nGailine.''</poem>
("Gailine of the pleasant streams to [Ó Ceallaigh](/source/%C3%93_Ceallaigh) is not unhereditary, Mighty is the tribe at hunting on the sunny land of Gailine.")<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YMk_AAAAcAAJ&q=magh+lacha&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|date=8 July 1862|publisher=A. Thom.|via=Google Books}}</ref>

After the [Laois-Offaly Plantation](/source/Laois-Offaly_Plantation), the Barrington family received land in Cullenagh.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PmpMDwOtrrEC&q=cullenagh&pg=PA195|title=Prelude to Restoration in Ireland: The End of the Commonwealth, 1659–1660|first=Aidan|last=Clarke|date=23 September 1999|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781139426282|via=Google Books}}</ref> Among their descendants was the jurist and writer [Jonah Barrington](/source/Jonah_Barrington_(judge)) (1756/7–1834).

==List of settlements==

Below is a list of settlements in Cullenagh barony:
*[Abbeyleix](/source/Abbeyleix) (eastern part)
*[Ballinakill](/source/Ballinakill)
*[Ballyroan](/source/Ballyroan%2C_County_Laois)
*[Timahoe](/source/Timahoe)

==References==
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{{County Laois}}

Category:Baronies of County Laois

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