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Bracknagh

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nameBracknagh
native_nameBreacánach
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settlement_typeVillage
image_skylineIMG BridgeBracknagh.jpg
image_captionR419 crossing the Figile River in Bracknagh
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pushpin_map_captionLocation in Ireland
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subdivision_type1Province
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subdivision_type3County
subdivision_name3Offaly
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population_total274
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Bracknagh or Bracnagh () is a small village in County Offaly, Ireland. It is at the junction of the R442 and R419 regional roads, close to the border with County Kildare, halfway between Portarlington and Rathangan (8 km from both).

It is thought that the settlement began with a small cluster of homes built around the road junction. Expansion along connected roads included the addition of two housing developments by Offaly County Council and Bord na Mona.

Bracknagh is home to the Ballynowlart church, where local tradition holds that the congregation were burned alive in the 1600s.

The local national school, St.Broghan's NS, had an enrollment of 84 pupils as of 2024. There is a holy well, also associated with St. Broghan, nearby.

Bracknagh GAA is the local Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club and was founded in 1973. The club won its first Offaly Intermediate Football Championship title in 1978. Teams representing the club also won the intermediate title in 1983, 2000 and 2016, and have also won several Senior B Championship titles.

Local community organisations include the Bracknagh Tidy Town committee and Bracknagh Heritage Society.

Notable people

  • John Joly (1857–1933), Irish physicist known for work in the field of radioactivity

References

References

  1. "Bracknagh (Ireland) Census Town".
  2. "Community - Tubber Notes".
  3. "Breacánach / Bracknagh". Irish Placenames Commission.
  4. "Bracknagh Village plan Adopted 26 March 2006". Offaly County Council.
  5. "The Ballynowlart martyrs. (Local tradition in connection with the burning of the congregation in Ballynowlart Church, Offaly).".
  6. (22 January 2024). "S N Naomh Brogain - 15983E - St Broghan's National School". Department of Education.
  7. "Local history". St. Broghan's National School.
  8. "Roll of Honour - Intermediate football".
  9. Jackson, Patrick N. Wyse. (October 2009). "Joly, John". Royal Irish Academy.
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