| Aghaboe | |
| Settlement Type: | civil parish |
| Translit Lang1: | Irish |
| Translit Lang1 Type: | Derivation: |
| Translit Lang1 Info: | Irish: Achadh-Beu |
| Translit Lang1 Type1: | Meaning: |
| Translit Lang1 Info1: | "the field of an ox" |
| Pushpin Map: | Ireland |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Aghaboe shown within Ireland |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Ireland |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Laois |
| Subdivision Type2: | Barony |
| Subdivision Name2: | Clandonnagh |
| Subdivision Type3: | Civil parish |
| Parts Type: | Townlands |
| Parts Style: | 75 |
Aghaboe, or Aughavoe, is a civil parish in County Laois.[1] [2] It lies partly in the barony of Clarmallagh and partly in the barony of Clandonagh.
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;[3] he was appointed in 1772 and must have resigned in 1797 as his successor was appointed in that year.
In the early Irish church, a parish was an ecclesiastical unit of territory based on the Gaelic territorial unit called a túath[4] 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".
The townlands that make up the parish are: