Agha Civil Parish, County Carlow, Ireland Genealogy

The following information is a starting point for records about the civil parish of Agha. The information is based on locations and records before 1922.

History
Agha, or Augha, is a parish in the barony of Idrone east, county of Carlow, and province of Leinster, comprising part of the market and post-town of Leighlin-bridge. This parish is situated on the east side of the river Barrow, which is navigable to Waterford, and on the road from Carlow to Kilkenny. According to historical tradition, an abbey, called Achad-finglass, was founded in Carlow at a very early period by St. Fintan, and in 864, in which year it was plundered by the Danes, it had risen into some note. Its site is now unknown. The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Leighlin, and forms part of the union of Dunleckney.

In the organization of the Roman Catholic church, it is partly in the union or district of Dunleckney, and partly in that of Old Leighlin. The chapel is located in Newtown.

Localities
The parish of Agha is surrounded by the parishes of Dunleckny, Fennagh, Killinane, and Wells. It is located in the poor law union of Carlow.

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Census
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Church of Ireland
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Presbyterian
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Methodist
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Society of Friends
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Civil Registration
Government registration of births and deaths began in 1864. Registration of Protestant marriages began in 1845, with all marriages being registered by 1864. Go to the Ireland Civil Registration article to read more about these records.

Land records
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Probate records
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Article, Abstract of Wills. Edmund GRACE of Walterstown, Co. Carlow, Diocese of Leighlin 1606, lists who is to inherit, and where to be buried. Article in The Irish Ancestor, vol. V. no. 1. 1973. pages 53-61, Family History Ref. 941.5 B2i v5-6.

School records
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Tax records
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