placenamesAghancon
Achadh Cinn Chon
Lewis recorded local benefactors alongside a Board of First Fruits gift for the 1786 church.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Achadh Cinn Chon · Irish · main form · validated name
- Aghancon · English · main form
Place & story
Building the parish church
Aghancon’s parish church was built in 1786 at the joint expense of Dr Pery, then Bishop of Limerick, and Jonathan Darby, with a £390 gift from the Board of First Fruits, according to Samuel Lewis. His 1837 account also records Mr Darby’s support for the parochial school, housed in a slated building near the church. It taught 22 boys and 17 girls at that time. Lewis’s account links the church and nearby school through named support, while giving the Board’s contribution rather than the church’s total construction cost. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Offaly
- Barony
- Ballybritt
- Barony
- Clonlisk
- Coordinates
- 53.00629, -7.77537
- Mapped area
- 21.53 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2000 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aghancon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aghancon — 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.