# Portnahinch

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{{Short description|Barony in County Laois, Ireland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
{{Use Irish English|date=December 2020}}
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| name                    = Portnahinch
| native_name             = <small>''Port na hInse'' ([Irish](/source/Irish_language))</small>
| settlement_type         = [Barony](/source/Barony_(Ireland))
| image_skyline           = Forest road near Emo, Co. Laois - geograph.org.uk - 1390466.jpg

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| image_caption           =Forest road near [Emo](/source/Emo%2C_County_Laois)
| image_map               =Baronies of Laois.jpg 
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| map_caption             = Barony map of Queen's County, 1900; Portnahinch is yellow, in the northeast.
| 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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| area_total_sq_mi        = 55.99
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'''Portnahinch''' or '''Portnehinch''' ({{Langx|ga|Port na hInse}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.logainm.ie/ga/130|title=Port na hInse/Portnahinch|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>Vthttps://www.google.ie/search?rlz=1C1PRFE_enIE801IE801&biw=728&bih=610&tbm=bks&ei=BY5HW4HJBsbjkgXq-L3QBQ&q=Portnehinch+barony&oq=Portnehinch+barony&gs_l=psy-ab.3...10623.12037.0.12183.3.3.0.0.0.0.81.211.3.3.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.ITQeyqpfygc</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/mappinggreatiris00lacl|url-access=registration|quote=Portnahinch.|title=Mapping the great Irish famine: a survey of the Famine Decades|first1=Líam|last1=Kennedy|first2=L. A.|last2=Clarkson|date=12 July 1999|publisher=Four Courts Press|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bqNnAAAAMAAJ&q=Portnahinch|title=The O Doyne (Ó Duinn) Manuscript: Documents Relating to the Family of O Doyne (Ó Duinn) from Archbishop Marsh's Library, Dublin, MS Z.4.2.19|first=Kenneth William|last=Nicholls|date=12 July 1983|publisher=Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==Etymology==

The barony is named after the townland of Portnahinch (''Port na hInse''; "port of the island").<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rm9bAAAAQAAJ&q=Portnehinch&pg=PA88|title=ACCOUNTS AND PAPERS: SEVENTEEN VOLUMES|date=12 July 2018|publisher=|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0L7RAAAAMAAJ&q=Portnehinch+barony&pg=PA37|title=Bibliotheca Hibernicana: Or a Descriptive Catalogue of a Select Irish Library, Collected for The Right Hon. Robert Peel|first1=William Shaw|last1=Mason|first2=Robert|last2=Peel|date=12 July 2018|publisher=W. Folds|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==Geography==
Portnahinch is located in the northeastern part of County Laois.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lju1AQAACAAJ&q=Portnehinch+barony|title=Survey, Valuation and Census of the Barony of Portnehinch, Compiled in the Year 1819|first=William Shaw|last=MASON|date=12 July 2018|publisher=|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==History==

Portnahinch formed part of the ancient [Kingdom of Uí Failghe](/source/Kingdom_of_U%C3%AD_Failghe).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6QE3AQAAMAAJ&q=Portnahinch+barony|title=A Comprehensive Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland [and] General History|first1=Patrick Weston|last1=Joyce|first2=Alexander Martin|last2=Sullivan|date=12 July 2018|publisher=Murphy & McCarthy|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YMk_AAAAcAAJ&q=portnahinch&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=12 July 1862|publisher=A. Thom.|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.ie/search?rlz=1C1PRFE_enIE801IE801&biw=728&bih=610&tbm=bks&ei=BY5HW4HJBsbjkgXq-L3QBQ&q=Portnehinch+barony&oq=Portnehinch+barony&gs_l=psy-ab.3...10623.12037.0.12183.3.3.0.0.0.0.81.211.3.3.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.ITQeyqpfygc|title=Portnehinch barony - Google Search|website=www.google.ie}}</ref>

==List of settlements==

Below is a list of settlements in Portnahinch barony:
*[Ballybrittas](/source/Ballybrittas)
*[Emo](/source/Emo%2C_County_Laois)
*[Mountmellick](/source/Mountmellick)
*[Portarlington](/source/Portarlington%2C_County_Laois)
==References==
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{{County Laois}}
Category:Baronies of County Laois

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