Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Historic town
Newmarket, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newmarket
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Newmarket
- Latest-edition OS map
- Newmarket (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.21358, -8.99657
- SMR number
- CO022-279----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Immediately N of demesne of Newmarket House (14888), c. 1km E of Dalua River. Town established by Sir Richard Aldworth who obtained market licence in 1620 and built market house in 1622 (MacCarthy-Morrogh 1986, 165); the 1641 depositions list 25 households (ibid.). In 1750 contained 'one regular street' with 'some well looking houses' (Smith 1750, vol. 1, 293); by 1837 contained 'about 246 houses, of which several are well built' (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 428). Former parish church (14722) on S side of Church Street. (Allen 1973; Ó Cróinín 1989)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
References
Allen, D.H. 1973 A history of Newmarket. Cork Historical Guides Committee.
MacCarthy-Morrogh, M. 1986 The Munster plantation. Oxford. Clarendon Press.
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.
Ó Cróinín, S. 1989 The Newmarket plantation. Seanchas Dúthalla 7, 4-7.
Smith, C. 1750 (New Edition 1815) The ancient and present state of the County and City of Cork, 2 vols. Cork. Guy and Co. Ltd.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.