placenamesAglish
An Eaglais
Lewis’s 1837 account connects a Kerry quarry with an Aghadoe mansion and records the funding of the parish church.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Eaglais · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Aglish · English · main form
Place & story
Barleymount stone at Aghadoe
Samuel Lewis recorded a building-stone quarry at Barleymount in Aglish parish. It supplied stone for Lord Headley’s mansion at Aghadoe. His account identifies a particular destination for the quarry’s output, connecting work in the parish with a substantial house elsewhere in Kerry. [2]
Funding the church and glebe house
The parish church had an octagonal tower rising from a square base. Lewis recorded a six-hundred-pound gift from the Board of First Fruits towards its erection in 1822. The glebe house was built around the same period, assisted by a separate gift of 337 pounds and a loan of 142 pounds. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aglish. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aglish, Magonihy, Kerry — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.