Aglish Explained

Aglish
Native Name:Irish: An Eaglais
Native Name Lang:ga
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Ireland
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Ireland
Coordinates:52.07°N -7.825°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Ireland
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Type3:County
Subdivision Name1:Munster
Subdivision Name3:Waterford
Unit Pref:Metric
Population Total:333
Population As Of:2016
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone1:WET
Utc Offset1:+0
Timezone1 Dst:IST (WEST)
Utc Offset1 Dst:-1
Blank Name:Irish Grid Reference

Aglish [2] is a village in west County Waterford, Ireland.

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 16km (10miles) west of Dungarvan and 18km (11miles) 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 - Irish: 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. 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.An annual vintage rally was run in the area from 1980 to 1996, and was revived again in 2008.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sapmap Area: Settlements Aglish . Central Statistics Office . Census 2016 . 2016 . 24 September 2021 . 14 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180214142034/http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=D90ECD8F-94F1-4148-85C6-4D14E6614968 . live .
  2. Web site: An Eaglais/Aglish . Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie) . 1 January 2022.
  3. Web site: Aglish (Ireland) Census Town . City Population . 18 May 2020 . 5 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201005223422/https://www.citypopulation.de/en/ireland/towns/waterford/0007__aglish/ . live .
  4. Web site: Paddy O'Brien's Official Website . Paddyobrien.com . 2012-08-31 . 11 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190311130700/http://paddyobrien.com/ . live .