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Aglish
An Eaglais
Village
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Aglish
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°04′12″N7°49′30″W / 52.070°N 7.825°W / 52.070; -7.825
Country Ireland
Province Munster
County Waterford
Population
 (2016) [1]
  Total333
Time zone UTC+0 (WET)
  Summer (DST) UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid Reference X121911

Aglish (Irish : An Eaglais, meaning 'the church') [2] is a village in west County Waterford, Ireland.

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Population

The population of the village almost doubled in size from 169 people as of the 2006 census, to 333 inhabitants by the 2016 census. [3] According to the 2016 census, approximately 50% of the homes in Aglish (72 of 137 responding private households) were built between 2001 and 2010. [1]

Location and access

Aglish lies 16 km (10 mi) west of Dungarvan and 18 km (11 mi) north of Youghal, and is within the parish of Aglish, Ballinameela and Mount Stuart. Running through the village is the Geosh river, a tributary of the River Blackwater.

Religion

The village is home to a 19th-century Catholic church - eaglais being the Irish-language word for "church" - with a former ruined church cited by the Dungarvan Leader newspaper to have been "pre-invasion". Remnants of two former ruined churches are still to be found alongside each other in the centre of the village, surrounded by an old graveyard dating back to at least 1700.

Amenities

Local amenities include a national school, village hall, two sports pitches one connected to school, and one pubs (The village inn).

Sport

Geraldines GAA is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club, and fields hurling and Gaelic football teams.[ citation needed ] Aglish also won three Waterford senior football titles in 1915, 1922 and 1923. Paddy O'Brien [4] is a singer from the area, who won Irish country music's Gold Star award in 1988.[ citation needed ] An annual vintage rally was run in the area from 1980 to 1996, and was revived again in 2008.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Sapmap Area: Settlements Aglish". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. 2016. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  2. "An Eaglais/Aglish". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  3. "Aglish (Ireland) Census Town". City Population. Archived from the original on 5 October 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  4. "Paddy O'Brien's Official Website". Paddyobrien.com. Archived from the original on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2012.