Clodagh Explained
Clodagh 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
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
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: The Irish For: The rise of Rían - the latest baby names in Ireland . Ó Séaghdha . Darach . 3 March 2022 . thejournal.ie . The Journal . 23 May 2022 .
- 5 . 1988 . 44–50 . Ansons At Ardmore . Anson . Clodagh . 8 February 2011 . The Ardmore Journal . 4 July 2017 .
