Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Historic town
Castleforbes Demesne,townparks (longford By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleforbes Demesne,townparks (longford By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Newtown Forbes
- Latest-edition OS map
- Newtown Forbes
- Coordinates
- 53.76678, -7.83481
- SMR number
- LF008-038----
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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
In low-lying pasture to the SE of the demesne of Castleforbes. Newtown Forbes was established as an estate village by Sir Arthur Forbes in 1622 when he was granted lands in Longford as part of the plantation of the county (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 540 1). Described in 1682 by Nicholas Dowdall as ‘a handsome Town wherein are fine stone houses and more a building’, with ‘a fair and Large Church [LF008-035----] Sumptuously adorned' (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 208). In 1690 the village was attacked and set on fire by Roman Catholic Irish forces (Hastings 1868, 66). It consists of a street, aligned roughly N-S, with dwellings on either side of it. At its S end is a 19th-century (C of I) church. 'Castle Forbes' (LF008-012----), the seat of the founding family, is situated c. 1km to the NW of the village. The modern streetscape dates from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 31 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.