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Agher (Template:Lang-ga) is a crossroads hamlet in County Meath, Ireland. It is located Template:Km to mi southwest of Summerhill.
The only retail outlet in Agher is the local Post Office.
History
From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
AGHER, a parish, in the barony of UPPER DEECE, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 2 and a 1/2 miles (S.S.W.) from Summerhill; containing 360 inhabitants.
It is situated on the road from Summerhill to Edenderry, and from the latter town to Dunboyne, and contains 1900 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act. Its surface gently undulates, and the soil consists of loam of different qualities: about one-third of the land is under tillage, and the remainder, with the exception of about l00 acres of bog, half of which is cut away and partly planted, is good grazing land. There are quarries of limestone; the Royal Canal passes near the southern extremity of the parish.
Agher House, the residence of J. P. Winter, Esq., occupies a beautiful situation in a demesne of about 650 statute acres, containing some fine timber: the gardens are extensive and well laid out; and the neat appearance of the cottages on the estate manifests the proprietor's regard for the comforts of the peasantry.
The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Meath, and in the patronage of the Crown : the tithes amount to £80. The church is a neat edifice, erected by voluntary contributions and a parochial rate, in 1804 : it contains a window painted by Gervaise, representing Paul preaching at Athens, from the cartoons of Raphael, which was formerly in the private chapel at Dangan, in the adjoining parish, when that place was the seat of the Wellesley family. There is a glebe-house, with a glebe of 12 1/2 acres.
In the R. C. divisions this parish forms part of the union or district: of Laracor, or Summerhill: the chapel is situated on the townland of Agher, on ground given by the family of Winter.
The parochial school for both sexes is aided by annual donations from Mr. Winter and the rector, and there is a private pay school; also a dispensary.
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