Clodagh (/ˈkloʊdə/ KLOH-də)^{[needs Irish IPA]} 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