Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for AGLISH, or AGLISHMARTIN

AGLISH, or AGLISHMARTIN, a parish, in the barony of IVERK, county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 3 miles (W.) from Waterford, on the river Suir, and on the road from Waterford to Carrick-on-Suir; containing 401 inhabitants, of which number, 142 are in the village. It comprises 2414 statute acres, and is a rectory, in the diocese of Ossory, and in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes amount to £96. 18. 5 ½. There is neither church nor glebe-house; the glebe consists of 2 ½ acres. In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of Moncoin.


(Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837); Transcription © Derek Rowlinson, 2005-10. Reproduced from LibraryIreland. We are deeply grateful to LibraryIreland for allowing us to use their transcription.)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Aglish IrlPar       Iverk IrlBarony       Kilkenny IrlC
Place names: AGLISH     |     AGLISHMARTIN     |     AGLISH OR AGLISHMARTIN
Place: Aglish

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