Upper Woods
Upper Woods
An Choill Uachtarach (Irish) | |
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| Forests in Upperwoods barony Forests in Upperwoods barony | |
| Barony map of Queen's County, 1900; Upper Woods is forest green, in the west. Barony map of Queen's County, 1900; Upper Woods is forest green, in the west. | |
| Sovereign state | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | Laois |
| Area | |
• Total | 198.00 km2 (76.45 sq mi) |
Upper Woods or Upperwoods (Irish: An Choill Uachtarach[1]) is a barony in County Laois (formerly called Queen's County or County Leix), Ireland.[2][3]
Etymology
[edit | edit source]Upper Woods barony is named after the forests of the Slieve Bloom Mountains.
Geography
[edit | edit source]Upper Woods is located in northwest County Laois, bounded to the northwest by the Slieve Bloom Mountains.
History
[edit | edit source]Upper Woods was part of the ancient Kingdom of Ossory (Osraige).[4] Around 1150 it was ruled by the Ua Dubhsláine (O'Delany) clan; the area was then called Tuath-an-Toraidh ("tuath [clan territory] of fruit/wealth/produce").[5] A member, Daniel Dulany the Elder (1685–1753), born in Upperwoods, became an important figure in colonial Maryland.[citation needed]
It is referred to in the topographical poem Tuilleadh feasa ar Éirinn óigh (Giolla na Naomh Ó hUidhrín, d. 1420):
Ard taoiseach tuaiṫe an toraiḋ
Ón Choill aoiḃinn Uachtoraiġ
Ó Duḃsláine, fial an fear
Ón tsliaḃ as áille inḃeaġ
("The high chief of the fruitful cantred, Of the delightful Coill Uachtorach [Upper Woods], Is O'Dubhslaine, hospitable the man, From the mountain of most beauteous rivers.")[6][7][8]
Upper Woods was formerly a part of the Upper Ossory barony, established by 1657; in 1842 it was divided into three cantreds: Upper Woods, Clandonagh and Clarmallagh.[citation needed]
List of settlements
[edit | edit source]Below is a list of settlements in Upper Woods barony:
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