Boss reported Irish county club (10)

I believe the answer is:
knobkerrie
'club' is the definition.
(knobkerrie is a kind of club)
'boss reported irish county' is the wordplay.
'boss' becomes 'knob' (I've seen this before).
'reported irish county' becomes 'kerrie' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'knob'+'kerrie'='KNOBKERRIE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for knobkerrie that I've seen before include "club" , "Stick" , "South African wooden weapon" .)
