Cullenagh

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| name = Cullenagh

| native_name = Cuileannach (Irish)

| settlement_type = Barony

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| image_caption =Hills at Knockbaun

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| map_caption = Barony map of Queen's County, 1900; Cullenagh is green, in the south.

| subdivision_type = Sovereign state

| subdivision_name = Ireland

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Leinster

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Laois

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| area_total_sq_mi =68.90

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Cullenagh or Cullinagh ({{Langx|ga|Cuileannach}}{{cite web|url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/124|title=Cuileannach/Cullenagh|website=Logainm.ie}}) is a barony in County Laois (formerly called Queen's County or County Leix), Ireland.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P5kvAAAAYAAJ&q=cullinagh&pg=RA1-PA6|title=A New Universal Gazetteer|first=John|last=Marshall|date=11 July 2018|publisher=Phillips & Sampson|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MStDAAAAcAAJ&q=cullinagh&pg=PA87|title=Ireland Population: Abstract of Answers and Returns Under the Population Acts : Enumeration 1831 ; Ordered to be Printed 7 August 1833|date=11 July 2018|publisher=|via=Google Books}}

Etymology

The barony is named after the Cullenagh Hills; located between Abbeyleix and Timahoe, they rise to a height of {{Convert|317|m}} and contain the source of the River Triogue. The name is believed to derive from Irish cuileann, "holly."{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/dublinuniversit38unkngoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/dublinuniversit38unkngoog/page/n666 594]|quote=cullinagh barony.|title=The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal|date=11 July 1861|publisher=W. Curry, jun., and Company|via=Internet Archive}}

Geography

Cullenagh is located in southern County Laois, mostly east of the River Nore. The southern part (near the border with County Kilkenny) is hilly, called the Slieve Lough or Dysart Hills.{{cite web|url=https://www.libraryireland.com/Atlas/Queens.php|title=Queen's County (Laois)|website=www.libraryireland.com}}

History

Cullenagh formed part of the ancient kingdom of Loígis.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kuk1AQAAMAAJ&q=cullenagh&pg=PA302|title=The Book of Rights|first=John|last=O'Donovan|date=11 July 2018|publisher=Celtic society|via=Google Books}} The northern part was part of Tuath-Fiodhbhuidhe (territory of the O'Devoy){{cite web|url=http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/life-society/families-in-history/seven-septs-of-laois/odevoy-(odeevy)/|title=O'Devoy (O'Deevy)|website=www.askaboutireland.ie}} along with the southern part of Maryborough West.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R5FnAAAAMAAJ&q=cullinagh+barony|title=The Greatest of the Fenians: John Devoy and Ireland|first=Terence A. M.|last=Dooley|date=1 January 2003|publisher=Wolfhound Press|isbn=9780863279072|via=Google Books}}

The southern part was called Gailine, and is mentioned in the topographical poem Tuilleadh feasa ar Éirinn óigh (Giolla na Naomh Ó hUidhrín, d. 1420):

Gailine na sreaḃ soiċleaċ

DO'Cheallaiġ ní coṁoighṫeaċ

Trom ag fiaḋacg an fine

Ar fonn ngrianach nGailine.

("Gailine of the pleasant streams to Ó Ceallaigh is not unhereditary, Mighty is the tribe at hunting on the sunny land of Gailine."){{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YMk_AAAAcAAJ&q=magh+lacha&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=8 July 1862|publisher=A. Thom.|via=Google Books}}

After the Laois-Offaly Plantation, the Barrington family received land in Cullenagh.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PmpMDwOtrrEC&q=cullenagh&pg=PA195|title=Prelude to Restoration in Ireland: The End of the Commonwealth, 1659–1660|first=Aidan|last=Clarke|date=23 September 1999|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781139426282|via=Google Books}} Among their descendants was the jurist and writer Jonah Barrington (1756/7–1834).

List of settlements

Below is a list of settlements in Cullenagh barony:

References

Category:Baronies of County Laois