Banagh
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Banagh
Báinigh (Irish) | |
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Barony map of County Donegal, 1900; Banagh is in the southwest, coloured peach. | |
| Coordinates: 54°42′N 8°18′W / 54.700°N 8.300°W | |
| Sovereign state | Ireland |
| Province | Ulster |
| County | Donegal |
| Area | |
• Total | 632.30 km2 (244.13 sq mi) |
Banagh (Irish: Báinigh[l 1]) is a historic barony in County Donegal in Ireland.[1] Patrick Weston Joyce said the name Banagh came from Enna Bogaine, son of Conall Gulban, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages.[2] It was created along with Boylagh when the former barony of Boylagh and Banagh was split in 1791 by an Act of the Parliament of Ireland.[3]
Banagh is bordered by the baronies of Boylagh to the north, Raphoe South to the northeast, and Tirhugh to the east.[4] Donegal Bay is to the south, and the open Atlantic Ocean to the west.[4]
The barony contains the following civil parishes:[1]
- Glencolumbkille
- Inishkeel (also partly in barony of Boylagh)
- Inver
- Kilcar
- Killaghtee
- Killybegs Lower (also partly in barony of Boylagh)
- Killybegs Upper
- Killymard
- Rossory, one townland only i.e. Crownasillagh (also partly in baronies of Magheraboy and Clanawley)