{{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 = Portnahinch | native_name = <small>''Port na hInse'' (Irish)</small> | settlement_type = Barony | image_skyline = Forest road near Emo, Co. Laois - geograph.org.uk - 1390466.jpg
| imagesize = | image_alta = | image_caption =Forest road near Emo | image_map =Baronies of Laois.jpg | map_alt = | map_caption = Barony map of Queen's County, 1900; Portnahinch is yellow, in the northeast. | subdivision_type = Sovereign state | subdivision_name = Ireland | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = Leinster | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name2 = Laois | area_magnitude = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 =145.02 | area_total_sq_mi = 55.99 | 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 = }}
'''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 in County Laois (formerly called ''Queen's County'' or ''County Leix''), 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.<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 *Emo *Mountmellick *Portarlington ==References== {{reflist}}
{{County Laois}} Category:Baronies of County Laois