placenamesAghavea
Achadh Bheithe
A gift and a repayable loan helped build the church recorded in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Achadh Bheithe · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Aghavea · English · main form
Place & story
Two forms of assistance
Samuel Lewis dated Aghavea’s parish church to 1813. The Board of First Fruits assisted its construction with a £200 gift and a £300 loan, distinguishing outright support from borrowed money. His 1837 account also described a glebe of forty-three acres and a modern glebe-house. Elsewhere in the parish, freestone quarries supplied building material; Lewis did not identify those quarries as the source of the church’s stone. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Magherastephana
- Coordinates
- 54.33725, -7.42597 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 69.52 km²
- Logainm ID
- 58948 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aghavea. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aughavea: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2009-01-27. How this page was prepared.