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Dunnamaggin
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Dunnamaggin (officially Dunnamaggan; Irish: Dún Iomagáin, meaning 'Fort of Iomagán'[1]) 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,[2] an electoral division,[3] and the townlands of Dunnamaggan East and West.[4]
Key Information
Dunnamaggin has a national school, St Leonard's National School[5]. It gives its name to the Catholic parish, which also includes the villages of Kilmoganny and Kells.[6] Dunnamaggin GAA club, based on the Catholic parish, has its ground in Dunnamaggin.
Name
[edit]In the nineteenth century Eugene O'Curry and John O'Donovan both rendered the name into Irish as Dún na mBogán "Fort of the [softness]", the last word interpreted by O'Curry as "soft eggs" and by O'Donovan as "bogs".[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dún Iomagáin/Dunnamaggan (population centre) Kilkenny". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
- ^ "Dún Iomagáin/Dunnamaggan (civil parish) Kilkenny". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
- ^ "Dún Iomagáin/Dunnamaggan (electoral district) Kilkenny". Placenames Database of Ireland. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
- ^ "Townlands in parish of Dunnamaggin". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 12 November 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "St. Leonard's NS". St. Leonard's NS, Dunnamaggin. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
- ^ "Dunamaggan". Parish Details. Ossory Diocese. Archived from the original on 31 October 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
- ^ Phelan, Mrs. W.J. (1952). "Dunamaggin". Old Kilkenny Review (5): 44–47.
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