Athgoe

Athgoe (Irish: Áth Gó, meaning 'ford of the water')[1] is the name of an area constituting three townlands situated in the Barony of Newcastle, in South Dublin, Ireland located near the Dublin/Kildare border.

Athgoe is a predominantly rural area with tillage, cattle and sheep as the main farming activities.

The ford that gives the area its name would have crossed what is now a minor stream at the bottom of Athgoe hill that feeds into the Camac river further east.

At the top of Athgoe hill there is a circular earthwork described as "Raheen" on maps (the little rath), although it is possibly a Bronze Age barrow.

In the documentary records, the earliest mention of Athgoe is in the 13th century when a document is witnessed by one Thomas De Agdoo in 1250.