| Agher Achair
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| Agher Post Office | |
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Agher
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| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Meath |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
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Agher (Irish: Achair) is a crossroads hamlet in County Meath, Ireland. It is located 3 km (1.9 mi) southwest of Summerhill.
The only retail outlet in Agher is the local Post Office.
Agher is well known throughout county Meath for its famous soccer club
The poet, political writer, and clergyman Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was rector of the Church of Ireland Church at Agher. The adjoining cemetery contains the graves of the Winter family who provided the land on which the Church was built in 1802. Members of the O'Higgins family who were descended from the Barons of Ballynary in County Sligo and of whom Bernardo O'Higgins of Chile was a kinsman are also buried in Agher Cemetery.
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