Claddy (Irish: An Chláidigh, meaning 'A stony place')[1] is a townland in the civil parishofAughagower and baronyofMurrisk. It is bordered to the northwest by Carrowkennedy, to the north by Bracklagh and Rooghaun, to the northeast by Keelkill and Lackderrig, to the southeast by Derrinke, to the south by Erriff, and to the southwest by Derryilra and Derryherbert.[2] At the time of the Carrowkennedy ambush on June 2 1921, the West Mayo Flying Column were billeted in the houses of in Claddy.
