Aghada

Not to be confused with Aghadoe, Killarney townland.

Aghada
Áth Fhada
Village
Lower Aghada Pier
Lower Aghada Pier
Aghada is located in Ireland
Aghada
Aghada
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 51°50′N 8°13′W / 51.833°N 8.217°W / 51.833; -8.217
CountryIreland
ProvinceMunster
CountyCounty Cork
Dáil ConstituencyCork East
EU ParliamentSouth
Population
 (2022)[1]
1,159
 (includes the bordering villages of Rostellan and Farsid)
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish grid referenceW855656

Aghada (Irish: Áth Fhada, meaning 'long ford') is a village and civil parish in County Cork, Ireland.[2] It is situated on the eastern side of Cork Harbour, around 12 km by road south of Midleton.

The civil parish of Aghada consists of several small villages and townlands including Saleen, Rostellan, Farsid, Upper Aghada, Lower Aghada, Whitegate, Guileen and Ballinrostig. There are several amenity sites in the area, including Rostellan Woods and Saleen Creek, as well as a number of beaches such as Inch Bay, White Bay, and Guileen Strand. Aghada is within the Cork East Dáil constituency.

Aghada power station was originally built in the early 1980s and produced up to 577 MW through the burning of natural gas and diesel. An additional gas-powered 430 MW CCGT unit was completed in 2010,[3] making Aghada station one of the largest power stations in the Republic of Ireland.[4]

There is a Presbyterian church in Upper Aghada.[5] During World War I the Royal Munster Fusiliers (reserves) were garrisoned in Aghada, and there was a United States Naval Air Station in the area.[6] William Cosgrove, a World War I recipient of the Victoria Cross, is buried in Upper Aghada cemetery.[7]

  1. ^ "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Aghada-Farsid-Rostellan". Census 2022. Central Statistics Office. April 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Áth Fhada / Aghada". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  3. ^ "Aghada - Power Stations - About ESB". esb.ie. Electricity Supply Board. Archived from the original on 30 October 2013.
  4. ^ "New power station becomes Ireland's largest". breakingnews.ie. Landmark Digital. 31 May 2010.
  5. ^ "Aghada Presbyterian Church". presbytery.ie. Dublin & Munster Presbytery. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  6. ^ "United States Naval Air Service in Cork, Ireland". corkshipwrecks.net. Cork Shipwrecks. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  7. ^ "Aghada Old Cemetery - CO-AGDO-072 - Cosgrove". historicgraves.com. Historic Graves. Retrieved 18 June 2017.