Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Historic town
Edgeworthstown,tinnynarr, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Edgeworthstown,tinnynarr
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- EDGEWORTHSTOWN
- Latest-edition OS map
- EDGEWORTHSTOWN
- Coordinates
- 53.69553, -7.60820
- SMR number
- LF015-063----
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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 pasture to the NE of the N4 Longford-Mullingar road. In 1621 Andrew Nugent and Richard Delamere were granted the castle (LF015-063007-) and lands of ‘Mastrim and Bungare’ (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 537). Later in the 17th century these lands came into the ownership of the Edgeworth family, who were responsible for the foundation of a town at Mastrim, which then became known as Edgeworthstown (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 210). The town was described in 1682 by Nicholas Dowdall as ‘a very good Countrey Town which hath a Market and two Fairs' (ibid.). According to Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 595) it had '167 houses’, and ‘a neat and improving appearance, the greater part having been rebuilt'. The present streetscape dates from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 31 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.