Newport's nineteenth-century town life included infantry barracks in a former school. Its churches preserve another form of reuse: windows transferred into a twentieth-century building.
Illustration, Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, Newport, County Tipperary
⊕Recorded locationNewport52.70947° N · 8.40423° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
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Recorded forms
An Port Nua· Irish · main form · validated name
Newport· English · main form
Place & story
A school becomes barracks
Samuel Lewis counted 852 inhabitants and 163 houses in Newport in 1837. The town stood beside a stream on the road to Limerick, near Sir Edmund Waller's estate. Buildings of an old charter school had been converted into barracks for two infantry companies. A constabulary post and weekly petty sessions added other public functions. Four annual fairs served the town, with the October gathering particularly important for cattle.[2]
People & connections
Lady Waller's memorial and school support
Lewis recorded a monument erected in the parish church by Lady Waller in 1825 to her late husband, Sir Robert Waller. An octagonal tower had been added to that church two years earlier, supported by a Board of First Fruits grant. He also described a school in the barrack-yard funded by the Incorporated Society, the rector and Lady Waller. These are specific records of patronage and education, distinct from the later Catholic church buildings.[2]
Old windows in a new church
The Church of the Most Holy Redeemer was built in 1933 with a classical entrance portico, Corinthian columns and a prominent corner tower. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records that its Venetian windows were reused from the former Catholic church. That older building, Saint John's on Chapel Lane, survives roofless with its cruciform plan, stone belfry and inscribed foundation stone. The reused windows create a direct material connection between the churches: part of the earlier congregation's building was incorporated into the twentieth-century replacement.[3][4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Newport — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
Newport, North Tipperary — Census town, CSO 2006 report
2002–2006: census town
1,286people · 2006
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Newport, North Tipperary — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
Newport, North Tipperary — Census town, CSO 1996 report
1991–1996: census town
873people · 1996
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Newport, North Tipperary — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Newport, Tipperary — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
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Newport, North Tipperary
Published census settlement populations
1,995people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, Newport, County Tipperary illustration: based on a Newport, County Tipperary by Sarah777. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
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