placenamesAglish
An Eaglais
A country house above the Lee and a later scheme house preserve different forms of domestic architecture at Aglish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Eaglais · Irish · main form · validated name
- Aglish · English · main form
Place & story
A house above the river
Aglish House dates to about 1820 in the architectural inventory. Its elevated wooded setting overlooks the River Lee. The survey recorded a hipped slate roof, rendered walls, timber sash windows and wrought-iron entrance gates, placing the house within the wider group of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century residences along the Lee valley. [2]
Local authority housing
A separate four-bay, single-storey house at Aglish dates to about 1940. The inventory identifies it as part of a local authority housing scheme and records its pantile roof and timber sash windows. A broad three-part window gives the modest frontage a distinctive arrangement. This building adds a twentieth-century public housing example to the district’s earlier domestic architecture. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aglish. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aglish House, NIAH 20907217 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Aglish scheme house, NIAH 20907218 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.