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In 1868, the parish of Mostrim contained the following places:"MOSTRIM, a parish in county Longford, Ireland. See Edgeworthstown."
"EDGEWORTHSTOWN, a post town in the parish of Mostrim, barony of Ardagh, county Longford, province of Leinster, Ireland, 8 miles E.S.E. of Longford, and 66 from Dublin. It is a station on the Sligo branch of the Midland Great Western of Ireland railway. This place was formerly called Mostrim, but took its present name from the Edgeworth family, its present proprietors. It is celebrated as being the residence of Maria Edgeworth, the novelist, who died herein 1849. In the parish church is a tablet to Miss Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, whose family vault is in the churchyard. Here are a police station, school, Roman Catholic chapel, market house, and dispensary within the Longford Poor-law Union. The mansion of the Edgeworths is a fine old-fashioned building. It was entered by a party of insurgents in 1798; and the circumstance is related by Miss Edgeworth in her "Memoirs " of her father. Petty sessions are held fortnightly. Tuesday is market day. Fairs are held on Shrove Tuesday, 5th May, 2nd July, 12th September, 5th November, and the Wednesday before Christmas Day."
"LISRYAN, a post-office village in the parish of Mostrim, barony of Ardagh, county Longford, Ireland, near Edgeworthstown."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2018