Newtowngore
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Newtowngore an Dúcharraig
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 Newtowngore
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| Coordinates: 54°02′35″N 7°40′23″W / 54.0431°N 7.6731°WCoordinates: 54°02′35″N 7°40′23″W / 54.0431°N 7.6731°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Leitrim |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
Newtowngore or Newtown Gore, known before the Plantations of Ireland as Ducarrick (Irish: an Dúcharraig, meaning "the black rock"), is a village on the R199 regional road in County Leitrim, in the north of the parish of Carrigallen.
The parish contains 1,500 statute acres, including a great quantity of bog: the cultivation is principally by spade labour; limestone of the best kind is quarried at Newtown-Gore. The village comprises about 100 houses. It has a market for grain and provisions on Monday; and fairs are held in April, 4 May, 9 August, 8 October, and the last Friday in December. Fairs are also held at Longfield on 17 May, 10 October and 29 December. There is a penny post to Killesandra and Ballinamore; and a constabulary police force has been stationed here. Petty sessions are held every alternate Saturday, but the manor court has been discontinued since the institution of the assistant barrister's court.
Bus Éireann route 462 serves the village on Saturdays providing a link to Sligo via Ballinamore and Drumshanbo.
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 of Griffith's Valuation.
(Estate) de Courcey – The de Courcey family held land in the parish of Drumreilly, barony of Dromahaire in the mid-nineteenth century.
The de Courcey family held land in the parish of Drumreilly, barony of Dromahaire in the mid-nineteenth century.
(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 at Friarstown in the 1870s, owned over 1,600 acres (6.5 km2) in County Leitrim at that time. This family intermarried with the Cullen family of County Leitrim on a number of occasions.
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