What is recorded here

Edgeworthstown is a historic town in County Longford, Ireland, where the Edgeworth family founded a settlement at Mastrim during the seventeenth century. The streetscape preserves that origin through buildings constructed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while the surrounding land remains marked by old pasture and the memory of a castle granted to Andrew Nugent and Richard Delamere.

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

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