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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

In 1868, the parish of Aghada contained the following places:

"AGHADA, (or Ahada), a parish in the baronies of Imokilly and Barrymore, in the county of Cork, and province of Munster, Ireland, 4 miles to the S.W. of Cloyne. It comprises the villages of Upper and Lower Aghada, Farsid, and Whitegate, and is situated on Cork harbour, at a little distance from Cove. Whitegate is a fishing port, and has a small pier, which was erected by subscription. The Cork steamboats call weekly during the summer months. The plaiting of straw and a peculiar kind of grass is carried on here, giving employment to about fifty or sixty women. The land is chiefly arable, the rest pasture, with little waste. Building stone is quarried at Whitegate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, value 1258, in the patronage of the crown. The church, erected in 1812, is in the village of Aghada, on a hill by the harbour. Aghada House and Whitegate house are the principal residences. There is an endowed school at Whitegate Hill, founded by R. U. Fitzgerald, Esq., in 1827.

"FARSID, a village in the parish of Aghada, barony of Imokilly, county Cork, province of Munster, Ireland, 3 miles S.W. of Castlemartyr."

"SALEEN, a hamlet in the barony of Imokilly, county Cork, province of Munster, Ireland, on Cork Harbour."

"WHITEGATE, a post-office village in the parish of Aghada, barony of Imokilly, county Cork, Ireland, 5 miles S.W. of Cloyne. It is chiefly inhabited by fishermen, and gives name to a small bay on the south-eastern side of Cork Harbour."

[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868] Copyright Colin Hinson ©2018