Bracknagh

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 were the first team to win the 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