Newtowngore An Dúcharraig | |
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Village | |
 Shop and post office in Newtowngore | |
  Newtowngore Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates:54°02′35″N7°40′23″W / 54.0431°N 7.6731°W /54.0431; -7.6731 | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Leitrim |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
Newtowngore orNewtown Gore, known before thePlantations of Ireland asDucarrick (Irish:An Dúcharraig, meaning 'the black rock'),[1] is a village on theR199regional road in the south-east ofCounty Leitrim. The village is in the north of the parish ofCarrigallen.[2]
There is evidence of a number ofringforts in the immediate vicinity of the village, in thetownlands of Carrickateane, Mullyaster, Tully North and Killydrum.[3]
According to the 9th-centuryTripartite Life of St Patrick, whenSaint Patrick was on his way toMagh Slecht to destroyCrom Cruaich, he founded a church and ordained a priest named Bruscus to look after it. The site of this Patrician church is thought to have been near Newtowngore. The ruins in the grounds of the presentChurch of Ireland church in Newtowngore are likely the medieval church of Moy, which was dedicated to Saint Patrick. Apart from this, nothing is known of the early ecclesiastical history of Carrigallen. There are two holy wells dedicated to the saint, one in Aughawillan and the second in Beaghmore. Nearby, the latter is a wart stone where people used to make the cure of the warts by washing them in the water which lay in a hollow in the stone in Moy Abbey in 1345.[citation needed]
As of the mid-19th century, and as recorded in Samuel Lewis'sTopographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), the parish was then made up of 1,500 statute acres, including a "great quantity of bog". At that time, the village contained about 100 houses and had a "market for grain and provisions on Monday" with fairs "held in April, 4 May, 9 August, 8 October, and the last Friday in December". Throughout at least the 19th and 20th centuries, a number offair days were held at Newtowngore on- 25 February, 25 May, 26 June (or 28th), 25 August, 15 October, and 25 November.[4][5]
As of the mid-19th century, there was "penny post to Killeshandra and Ballinamore; and a constabulary police force [had] been stationed here".[6]
Woodford (Estate) Collins – Robert Collins was the lessor of several townlands in the parishes of Drumreilly and Oughteragh, baronies of Carrigallen and Mohill, at the time ofGriffith's Valuation.[citation needed]
(Estate) de Courcey – The de Courcey family held land in the parish of Drumreilly, barony of Dromahaire, in the mid-nineteenth century.[citation needed]
The de Courcey family held land in the parish ofDrumreilly, barony of Dromahaire in the mid-nineteenth century.[citation needed]
(Estate) Palmer (Leitrim) – The Palmer family were resident at Sriff or Shriff from at least the end of the eighteenth century. They held lands in the parishes of Drumlease and Drumreilly, barony of Dromahaire in the mid-nineteenth century. Henry Manly Palmer of Sriff was a member of the Grand Jury for Leitrim in 1851. Isabella Palmer of Drumkeel is recorded as owning over 1,300 acres (5.3 km2) in Leitrim in 1876. Thomas Robert Palmer, living atFriarstown in the 1870s, owned over 1,600 acres (6.5 km2) in County Leitrim at that time. This family intermarried with the Cullen family ofCounty Leitrim on a number of occasions.[citation needed]
Newtowngore has a Church of Ireland church (dedicated to Saint Patrick),[7] anational (primary) school,[8] a small number of shops, and (as of early 2019) a post office.[9]
Bus Éireann route 462 serves the village on Saturdays providing a link toSligo viaBallinamore andDrumshanbo.[10]
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