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Historic town

Edgeworthstown,Tinnynarr, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Historic town, Edgeworthstown, Tinnynarr, County Longford, 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
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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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

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

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

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