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Newtown

An Baile Nua

A pair of bridges beside the townland records both early road engineering and later rebuilding.

Recorded locationNewtown52.62200° N · 7.89833° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

bailetownland, town, homesteadnuanew

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • An Baile Nua · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Newtown · English · main form

Place & story

Two crossings of the Suir

Twoford Bridges, beside Newtown’s southern edge, cross the River Suir. Both date from around 1800. One has four rounded stone arches; the other has four stone arches and a fifth opening rebuilt in concrete. The architectural inventory attributes the concrete replacement to damage during the Civil War. Limestone parapets and pointed cutwaters complete the bridges, which the records associate with Newtown, Monamoe and Glenbane Lower. [2] [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tipperary
Barony
Eliogarty
Civil parish
Holycross
Within
Holycross
Coordinates
52.62200, -7.89833
Mapped area
1.22 km²
Logainm ID
47107 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Newtown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Twoford Bridges four-arch crossing, registration22404712, NorthTipperary survey2004 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  3. Twoford Bridges five-arch crossing, registration22204706, SouthTipperary survey2005 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  4. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.