Clodagh (/ˈkloʊdə/ KLOH-də) is a female given name of Irish origin. [1] Lady Clodagh Anson, daughter of John Beresford, 5th Marquess of Waterford, was named after the River Clodiagh, which flows through the Marquess's estate at Curraghmore at County Waterford.[2] Lady Clodagh married Claud Anson, son of Thomas Anson, 2nd Earl of Lichfield, and had a daughter who later wrote, "She called me Clodagh too and hoped, in vain, that we'd be the only two."[2] The name Clodagh is popular in Ireland but is little used elsewhere.
People named Clodagh
- Clodagh Jayasuriya, Ceylonese politician
- Clodagh McKenna, Irish chef
- Clodagh O'Shea, Biologist
- Clodagh Rodgers, Northern Irish singer
- Clodagh Simonds, Irish singer
- Lady Clodagh Beresford, Anglo-Irish philanthropist, writer and aristocrat.
Fictional characters
- Countess Clodagh, the fiancé of the narrator in The Purple Cloud, a 1901 novel by M. P. Shiel.
- Clodagh Asshlin, the heroine of The Gambler, a 1905 novel by Katherine Cecil Thurston.
- Sister Clodagh, a main character in the 1939 novel Black Narcissus, played by Deborah Kerr in the 1947 film adaptation.
- Clodagh Pine, character in Maeve Binchy's Circle of Friends (novel).
- Clodagh Piper, mother of the heroine of the 1994 novel An Imaginative Experience by Mary Wesley.
- Clodagh, protagonist of Grasshopper, a 2000 novel by Barbara Vine.
- Dr. Clodagh Delaney, in the RTÉ series The Clinic, played by Leigh Arnold.
- Clodagh, protagonist of Heir to Sevenwaters, a fantasy novel set in medieval Ireland.
Other uses
- Storm Clodagh, a windstorm in north-western Europe in November 2015
- Clodagh Standing Stones, in County Cork, Ireland
- Clodagh Eastern Colony, Sri Lanka
- River Clodagh, a main tributary of the River Ilen in County Cork, Ireland
See also
- List of Irish-language given names
- All pages with titles beginning with Clodagh
References
- ↑ Ó Séaghdha, Darach (3 March 2022). "The Irish For: The rise of Rían - the latest baby names in Ireland". thejournal.ie. The Journal. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
- 1 2 Anson, Clodagh (8 February 2011) [1988]. "Ansons At Ardmore". The Ardmore Journal. 5: 44–50. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
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