placenamesAgha
Achadh
Lewis recorded two school buildings and their combined pupil numbers in 1837.
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 · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Agha · English · main form
Place & story
Education across the parish
Agha parish included part of Leighlinbridge, on the eastern side of the Barrow. In 1837 Samuel Lewis recorded a school there and another recently built near the Catholic chapel at Newtown. Together the two schools taught a hundred and twenty boys and two hundred and thirty girls; these figures are combined totals, rather than numbers for each school. A separate fee-paying school had about twenty pupils. The chapel at Newtown was also described as recently erected, although Lewis did not give its exact completion year. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Carlow
- Barony
- Idrone East
- Coordinates
- 52.73196, -6.92880
- Mapped area
- 16.91 km²
- Logainm ID
- 310 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Agha. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Agha or Augha, 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.