These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
An Eaglais· Irish · main form · validated name
Aglish· English · main form
Place & story
The medieval east window
The old church at Aglish survives as an east gable and short returns of its side walls. Its two-light window attracted the attention of architectural historian Rachel Moss during her 1996 survey. She dated it probably to the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, noting its carefully worked external chamfer. The church was recorded as Gallis in the ecclesiastical taxation of 1302. By 1588 it had no incumbent and its property had been sequestered.[2]
John O'Meara's new church
The later Catholic church was built in 1856 under parish priest John O'Meara, replacing a smaller building on the site. Mr Sheehan of Modeligo acted as builder and contractor. The church could accommodate about 800 people. O'Meara had previously served as curate in Tallow and Waterford, where he took part in the Stuart election campaign. He became parish priest in 1840 and remained until his death in 1870.[3]
The village within the parish
Samuel Lewis recorded 302 people in Aglish village in 1837, within a much larger parish of 3,689 inhabitants. The Blackwater bounded the parish on its western side; its land included pasture, woodland, bog and mountain. Lewis listed two schools supported by H. V. Stuart, attended by 183 children, and five fee-paying schools with approximately 305 pupils. The Catholic district included churches at Aglish, Ballinameela and Slievegrine, illustrating the wider area served from the village.[4]
People & connections
Paddy O'Brien's country music
Country singer Paddy O'Brien identifies Aglish as his home place. His career has taken him to audiences in Ireland and Britain, with a repertoire that includes Marion's Rose, Never Grow Old and Out to California. His country-and-Irish recordings give the village a connection to a different strand of Waterford's musical life from its better-known traditional instrumental music.[5]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Aglish — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Aglish, Waterford — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
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Aglish, Waterford
Published census settlement populations
333people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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