{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Dunnamaggin |native_name = {{lang|ga|Dún Iomagáin}} |native_name_lang = ga |settlement_type = Village |image_skyline = Dunnamaggan Credit Union office - geograph.org.uk - 4277324.jpg |image_caption = Dunnamaggin, on the R699 road |pushpin_map = Ireland |pushpin_label_position = right |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ireland |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = Ireland |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_name1 = Leinster |subdivision_type3 = County |subdivision_name3 = County Kilkenny |established_title = |established_date = |unit_pref = Metric |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 = |population_as_of = |population_footnotes = |population_total = |population_density_km2 = auto |timezone1 = WET |utc_offset1 = +0 |timezone1_DST = IST (WEST) |utc_offset1_DST = -1 |coordinates = {{coord|52.503159|-7.300202|dim:100000_region:IE|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = |blank_name = Irish Grid Reference |blank_info = {{iem4ibx|S4754939300}} |website = {{URL|dkk.ie}} |footnotes = }} '''Dunnamaggin''' (officially '''Dunnamaggan'''; {{Irish place name|Dún Iomagáin|Fort of Iomagán}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.logainm.ie/1411671.aspx|title=Dún Iomagáin/Dunnamaggan (population centre) Kilkenny|work=Placenames Database of Ireland|access-date=12 November 2012}}</ref>) is a small village in the south County Kilkenny, Ireland, on the R699 road between Callan and Knocktopher, east of its intersection with the R697 between Kells and Kilmoganny. Dunnamaggan gives its name to a civil parish,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.logainm.ie/1286.aspx|title=Dún Iomagáin/Dunnamaggan (civil parish) Kilkenny|work=Placenames Database of Ireland|access-date=12 November 2012}}</ref> an electoral division,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.logainm.ie/1403328.aspx|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130217232131/https://www.logainm.ie/1403328.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 February 2013|title=Dún Iomagáin/Dunnamaggan (electoral district) Kilkenny|work=Placenames Database of Ireland|access-date=12 November 2012}}</ref> and the townlands of Dunnamaggan East and West.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://logainm.ie/Children.aspx?parentID=1286&typeID=BF|title=Townlands in parish of Dunnamaggin|work=Placenames Database of Ireland|access-date=12 November 2012}}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
Dunnamaggin has a national school, St Leonard's National School<ref>{{cite web |title=St. Leonard's NS |url=https://www.dunnamagginns.com/ |website=St. Leonard's NS, Dunnamaggin |access-date=18 December 2025}}</ref>. It gives its name to the Catholic parish, which also includes the villages of Kilmoganny and Kells.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ossory.ie/parishes-and-people/diocesan-database/parish-details/?page=ddb_parish_details&parishID=43|title=Dunamaggan|work=Parish Details|publisher=Ossory Diocese|access-date=12 November 2012|archive-date=31 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031055957/http://www.ossory.ie/parishes-and-people/diocesan-database/parish-details/?page=ddb_parish_details&parishID=43|url-status=dead}}</ref> Dunnamaggin GAA club, based on the Catholic parish, has its ground in Dunnamaggin.
==Name== In the nineteenth century Eugene O'Curry and John O'Donovan both rendered the name into Irish as {{lang|ga|Dún na mBogán}} "Fort of the [softness]", the last word interpreted by O'Curry as "soft eggs" and by O'Donovan as "bogs".<ref name="Phelan">{{cite journal|last=Phelan|first=Mrs. W.J.|year=1952|title=Dunamaggin|journal=Old Kilkenny Review|issue=5|pages=44–47}}</ref>
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Category:Towns and villages in County Kilkenny
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