Aghaboe, or Aughavoe, is a civil parish in County Laois.Aghaboe civil parishDescription of Aghaboe in Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, (1837) It lies partly in the barony of Clarmallagh and partly in the barony of Clandonagh.
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;John O'Hanlon and Edward O'Leary, History of Queen's County, Volume 1, (1907), page 156 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 túathMichael A. Monk and John Sheehan, Early Medieval Munster: Archaeology, History and Society, , (1998), page 56 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
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