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Agharra

Eachara

The Ordnance Survey name-book account records schooling and estate landscapes in the 1830s.

Recorded locationAgharra53.61065° N · 7.64968° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • Eachara · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Agharra · English · main form

Place & story

Schools and houses in the survey account

The Ordnance Survey field name-book account of Agharra records five hedge schools with a combined attendance of one hundred and seventy-four scholars in 1834. It does not name the teachers or locate the individual schools. The same account identifies three demesnes: Liscormick House in Liscormick, Ardanragh Castle in Ardanragh, and Cloghdoo House extending into Castlewilder and Castlewilder Glebe. These named estates appear alongside the villages of Agharra and Lissawarriff and the old parish church remains in Agharra townland. The description records the survey-period landscape, without establishing the present condition of those buildings. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Civil parish
County
Longford
Barony
Shrule
Coordinates
53.61065, -7.64968
Mapped area
10.5 km²
Logainm ID
1650 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Agharra. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Aghara parish, Ordnance Survey field name-book transcript · Ordnance Survey; transcript published by Longford Library

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.