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Historic town

Newmarket, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Historic town, Newmarket, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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