placenamesAghaviller
Áth an Bhiolair
Lewis recorded a measured fragment of the older religious landscape near Castle Morres.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Áth an Bhiolair · Irish · main form · validated name
- Aghaviller · English · main form
Place & story
Measuring around the tower
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account placed the lower part of an ancient round tower near Castle Morres, a few yards from the old church site. He described its stone as breccia and measured its circumference above the base at fifty feet. This is a measurement around the surviving structure, rather than its height, and belongs to his historical description. [2]
Three fairs at Hugginstown
Lewis also recorded three fairs at Hugginstown, known as the fairs of Harvey, without supplying their calendar dates. His parish account identified chapels at Hugginstown and Newmarket, with a Sunday school in the latter. These details locate trading and teaching within different settlements in Aghaviller parish. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kilkenny
- Barony
- Knocktopher
- Coordinates
- 52.44504, -7.27161
- Mapped area
- 22.93 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1381 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aghaviller. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aughaviller or Aghaviller — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.