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Only the E gable (6m wide internally) and returns of the N and S wall remain standing.
The church is recorded in the ecclesiastical taxation of 1302 as Gallis, presumably derived from Aglish-na-nGall, the church of the foreigners. In 1588 Aglish was without an incumbent and the church property was sequested.
The two light window has been compared to the e. window at St Saviour's Glendalough (Power, 1898, 1938, de Paor, 1956) however, the external chamfer gives the Aglish window a far more sophisticated appearance than the simply shaped piece of shale used at Glendalough. The Aglish window is probably late 12thc./early 13thc.
Michael Moore, ed., Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford, Dublin 1999.
P. Power, 'Some Old Churches of Decies' Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 68, (1938) 57-58.
P. Power, 'Some Ancient Churches in County Waterford' Waterford and South East Ireland Antiquarian Society, 4, (1898) 203-6.
L. de Paor, Chronological Problems of Irish Romanesque Unpublished MA Thesis University College Dublin, 1956.
