Aglish () is a village in west

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Population

The population of the village almost doubled in size from 169 people as of the 2006 census, to 333 inhabitants by the 2016 census. According to the 2016 census, approximately 50% of the homes in Aglish (72 of 137 responding private households) were built between 2001 and 2010.

Location and access

Aglish lies west of

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and north of

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, and is within the parish of

Aglish, Ballinameela and Mount Stuart Aglish, Ballinameela and Mount Stuart is a large parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore. It is situated the west of Dungarvan, County Waterford in Ireland. The parish comprises the villages of Aglish and Villierstown, pl ...

. Running through the village is the Geosh river, a tributary of the River Blackwater.

Religion

The village is home to a 19th-century Catholic church - being the

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word for "church" - with a former ruined church cited by the Dungarvan Leader newspaper to have been "pre-invasion". Remnants of two former ruined churches are still to be found alongside each other in the centre of the village, surrounded by an old graveyard dating back to at least 1700.

Amenities

Local amenities include a national school, village hall, two sports pitches one connected to school, and one pubs (The village inn).

Sport

Geraldines GAA is the local

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club, and fields

hurling Hurling ( ga, iománaíocht, ') is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of p ...

and

Gaelic football Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kic ...

teams. Aglish also won three Waterford senior football titles in 1915, 1922 and 1923. Paddy O'Brien is a singer from the area, who won Irish country music's Gold Star award in 1988. An annual vintage rally was run in the area from 1980 to 1996, and was revived again in 2008.

References

External links

Aglish National School
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Geraldines 2002 Glory
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