Dunnamaggin

Dunnamaggin Dún Iomagáin
Hamlet
Dunnamaggin Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°30′11″N 7°18′01″W / 52.503159°N 7.300202°WCoordinates: 52°30′11″N 7°18′01″W / 52.503159°N 7.300202°W
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	County Kilkenny
Time zone	WET (UTC+0)
• Summer (DST)	IST (WEST) (UTC-1)
Irish Grid Reference	S4754939300
Website	dkk.ie

Dunnamaggin (officially Dunnamaggan; Irish: Dún Iomagáin, meaning "Fort of Iomagán"^[1]) is a hamlet in the south County Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland, on the R699 road between Callan and Knocktopher, east of its intersection with the R697 between Kells and Kilmaganny. Dunnamaggan gives its name to a civil parish,^[2] an electoral division,^[3] and the townlands of Dunnamaggan East and West.^[4]

Dunnamaggin has a national school and a sub post office. It gives its name to the Catholic parish, which also includes the village of Kilmoganny.^[5] Dunnamaggin GAA club, based on the Catholic parish, has its ground in Dunnamaggin.

Name

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".^[6]

References

1. "Dún Iomagáin/Dunnamaggan (population centre) Kilkenny". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
2. "Dún Iomagáin/Dunnamaggan (civil parish) Kilkenny". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
3. "Dún Iomagáin/Dunnamaggan (electoral district) Kilkenny". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
4. "Townlands in parish of Dunnamaggin". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
5. "Dunamaggan". Parish Details. Ossory Diocese. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
6. Phelan, Mrs. W.J. (1952). "Dunamaggin". Old Kilkenny Review (5): 44–47.