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An Eaglais
Lewis’s account records the institutions and agricultural practices of the Cork parish between the Lee and Bride.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Eaglais · Irish · main form · validated name
- Aglish · English · main form
Place & story
A licensed house for worship
Samuel Lewis found Aglish’s Church of Ireland church in ruins in 1837. Services were being held in a house licensed by the bishop while rebuilding was awaited; there was no glebe-house. His account separately places the Catholic parish within the Ovens district and describes its chapel as an older, plain building. These observations record temporary and established places of worship before the later churches associated with Farran and Aherla. [2]
Schooling and a named benefactor
Lewis recorded a parochial school for boys and girls, another school attended by about sixty boys, and two fee-paying schools. The sixty-boy school received an annual contribution of eight pounds and eight shillings from a patron he identified as Mr Rye. This is a specific record of educational support in the parish, without supplying a fuller biography or assuming that the donor financed all its schools. [2]
Water used on the grassland
The parish lay between the Lee and Bride, with arable land forming most of Lewis’s recorded acreage. He noted irrigation on the grasslands and described improving agricultural practice alongside pasture, woodland and a small area of bog and waste. His report of irrigated fields adds a practical use of river-valley water to the better-known history of country houses along the Lee. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Coordinates
- 51.88360, -8.75795
- Mapped area
- 27.42 km²
- Logainm ID
- 757 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aglish. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aglish, East Muskerry, Cork, 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.