Aghaboe (civil parish)

Aghaboe
Irish transcription(s)
• Derivation:	Achadh-Beu
• Meaning:	""the field of an ox""
The crest of County Laois
Country	Ireland
County	Laois
Barony	Clandonnagh
Townlands	75

Aghaboe, or Aughavoe, is a civil parish in County Laois.^[1][2] It lies partly in the barony of Clarmallough and partly in the barony of Clandonnagh.

Church of Ireland parish

As with other civil parishes in Ireland, the civil parish of Aghaboe was derived from, and is co-extensive with, a pre-existing ecclesiastical parish of the Church of Ireland. However, due to reorganization of the church, the ecclesiastical parish no longer exists, having been subsumed into the parish of Rathdowney in the Diocese of Cashel and Ossory.

The historian, antiquary and topographer, Edward Ledwich was a vicar of the Church of Ireland parish;^[3] he was appointed in 1772 and must have resigned in 1797 as his successor was appointed in that year.

Early Irish church

In the early Irish church, a parish was an ecclesiastical unit of territory based on the Gaelic territorial unit called a tuath^[4] or on early Christian and monastic settlements. In the case of Aghaboe, the parish seems based on the ministry of the early mediaeval Abbey of Aghaboe, whose Irish language name, Achadh Bhó, means "Ox's Field".

Townlands

The townlands that make up the parish are:

Aghaboe Anster Ardvarney Ballybrophy Ballycolla Town Ballycuddahy Ballygarvan Glebe Ballygeehin Lower Ballygeehin Upper Ballygowdan Ballyhinode Ballykeevan Ballyowen Ballyreilly Barnasallagh Baunbrack

Baunoge Boherard Borris-in-Ossory Town Bushfield Cappagh Carrowreagh Chapelhill Coolbally Coolfin Corraun Cross Cruell Cuffsborough Dairyhill Delligabaun

Derrin Derrinoliver Derrinsallagh Derryvorrigan Doon Farraneglish Glebe Fearagh Friarsland Garryduff Gortnaclea Gortnagroagh Grange Beg Grange More Grantstown Keelough Glebe Kilbeg

Kilcotton Kildellig Kilminfoyle Kilnaseer Knockamullin Knockaroe Knockfin Knockkyle Knockseera Kyletilloge Leap Legaun Lismore Maghernaskeagh Middlemount Moanfad

Oldglass Palmershill Park Sentryhill Shanboe Skeagh Springfield Tinnaragh Tinnaraheen Tintore Tooreagh Townparks

References

1. Aghaboe civil parish
2. Description of Aghaboe in Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, (1837)
3. John O'Hanlon and Edward O'Leary, History of Queen's County, Volume 1, (1907), page 156
4. Michael A. Monk and John Sheehan, Early Medieval Munster: Archaeology, History and Society, ISBN 1859181074, (1998), page 56