# Dunnamaggin

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{{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
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|pushpin_map_caption    = Location in Ireland
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|subdivision_name1      = [Leinster](/source/Leinster)
|subdivision_type3      = [County](/source/Counties_of_Ireland)
|subdivision_name3      = [County Kilkenny](/source/County_Kilkenny)
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'''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](/source/Placenames_Database_of_Ireland)|access-date=12 November 2012}}</ref>) is a small village in the south [County Kilkenny](/source/County_Kilkenny), Ireland, on the [R699](/source/R699_road_(Ireland)) road between [Callan](/source/Callan%2C_County_Kilkenny) and [Knocktopher](/source/Knocktopher), east of its intersection with the [R697](/source/R697_road_(Ireland)) between [Kells](/source/Kells%2C_County_Kilkenny) and [Kilmoganny](/source/Kilmoganny). Dunnamaggan gives its name to a [civil parish](/source/civil_parishes_in_Ireland),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.logainm.ie/1286.aspx|title=Dún Iomagáin/Dunnamaggan (civil parish) Kilkenny|work=[Placenames Database of Ireland](/source/Placenames_Database_of_Ireland)|access-date=12 November 2012}}</ref> an [electoral division](/source/electoral_division_(Ireland)),<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](/source/Placenames_Database_of_Ireland)|access-date=12 November 2012}}</ref> and the [townland](/source/townland)s 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](/source/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](/source/national_school_(Ireland)), 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](/source/Dunnamaggin_GAA) club, based on the Catholic parish, has its ground in Dunnamaggin.

==Name==
In the nineteenth century [Eugene O'Curry](/source/Eugene_O'Curry) and [John O'Donovan](/source/John_O'Donovan_(scholar)) 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](/source/Old_Kilkenny_Review)|issue=5|pages=44–47}}</ref>

==References==
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Category:Towns and villages in County Kilkenny

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