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National, British, and Infant schools; a Charity school for 20 girU ; a 

 school for girls, supported by Mrs. Vanhagan ; a literary and scientific 

 institute ; and a savings bank. There is here an academy for educating 

 young men for the ministry, in connection with the Independents. 

 The principal charities of the place are Revis's almshouses and Queen 

 Ann's hospital, or almshouse — so called from Ann, consort of James I., 

 by whom it wag refounded. The manufacture of bone-laoo is carried 

 on to some extent. There is a good carrying trade in com, coal, and 

 timber. The market is held on Saturday, and seven fairs, chiefly for 

 cattle, are held in the year. A county court is held. 



NEWPORT, or NEWPORT-PRATT, county Mayo, Ireland, a 

 market-town and sea-port, and the seat of a Poor-Law Union, is 

 aitttated at the head of Clew Bay, on the Newport River, in 63° 63' 

 N. lat., 9° Sr W. long., distant by road 11 miles W.N.W. from Castle- 

 hm, 170 miles W.N.W. from DubUn. The population in 1851 was 

 984. Newport Poor-Law Union comprises 10 electoral divisions, with 

 an area of 159,610 acres, and a population in 1851 of 15,379. The 

 town contains a neat parish church, chapels for Roman Catholics and 

 Methodists, and several National schools. There are also a court- 

 boute, gome lai^ storehouses recently erected, and a Union work- 

 house. The harbour admits to the quays vessels of 400 tons. The 

 principal trade is the export of grain. Petty sessions are held 

 monthly. Tuesday is the market-day. Fairs are held June 8th, 

 August Ist, November 11th, and December 20th. The neighbourhood 

 is strikingly diversified by the numerous islands around the head of 

 Clew Bay, and the lofty mountains skirting it on either side, and 

 those overhanging Newport Vale. 



NEWRT, Ireland, a sea-port town, parliamentary borough, and the 

 seat of a Poor-Law Union, partly in cotmty Armagh, but chiefly in 

 county Down, is situated on the Newry River, In 54° 10' N. lat, 

 6° ao'^W. long., distant by road 88 miles 8.S.W. from Belfast, 63 miles 

 N. from Dublin by road, and 74 miles by the Dublin and Drogheda, 

 and Dublin and Belfast Junction railways. The borough returns one 

 member to the Imperial Parliament. Its population in 1851 was 

 13,191, besides 888 inmates of the workhouse. Newry Poor-Law 

 Union comprises 28 electoral divisions, with an area of 187,786 acres, 

 and a population in 1851 of 84,576. 



The town grew up around a monastery, which was founded in 

 1163, and soon after a castle was built in the place, by John de 

 Coaroey, one of the Anglo-Norman conquerors of Ulster. The castle 

 was destroyed by Edward Bruce, in hu invasion of Ireland. Being 

 rebuilt, it was again destroyed in the rebellion of Shane O'Neil ; but 

 was a second time restored by Bagnal Hurshal, of Ulster, who also 

 rebuilt the town, and repeopled it with Protestant settlers. Newry 

 suffered in the civil war of 1641, and was destroyed by the army of 

 James II., in thrir retreat from the nurth in 1689, only the castle 

 and six houses being left standing. The borough was incorporated 

 by James I., aud till the Union returned two members to the Irish 

 Parliament. The corporation is extinct. The town is under the 

 management of 21 commissioners. Four stone bridges over the river 

 Newry connect the two parts of the town, and four drawbridges 

 cross the canal, which runs along the right bank of the river. 'Tbe 

 town contains mnnv handsome houses. It is lighted with gas, well- 

 paved, and stipplied with water. 



The parish church, a handsome structure in the early English 

 style, with a tower moA spire 190 feet high, was erected in 1811. Of 

 two chapels of ease, one, formerly the parish church, was built in 

 1578, and restored in 1660. There are two Roman Catholic chapels, 

 one of them the diocesan chapel of the Bishop of Dromore ; a 

 nunnery ; a school, preparatory to the college of Haynooth ; chapels 

 for Presbyterians, Independents, and Methodists; National schools; 

 and a savings bank. Among the public buildings are tbe new court- 

 house, tbe town-hall or market-house, a spacious assembly-room, a 

 neat oostom-house, a large infantry barrack, the fever hospital, 

 dispensary. Union workhouse, and two bridewells. Along the quay 

 ars large and well-built warehouses. The manufactures of the town 

 are linen, cotton, glass, and cordage. There are also iron and brass 

 foundries, coach and car manufactories, tan-yards, breweries, a distil- 

 lery, and com- and flour-mills. Newry communicates with Carling- 

 ford, 6 miles distant, by a ship canal and the Newiy River; and with 

 Lough Neagh, 82 miles distant, by a boat canal and the river Bann. 

 Vessels drawing 15 feet water ascend to Albert Basin, at the town. 

 The >ort of Newry, which extends to Carlingford Bay, admits vessels 

 of 1000 tons to Warrenpoint, 61 miles below the town. The prin- 

 cipal exports are grain, provisions, cattle, eggs, and butter. Two 

 ■steamers sail twice a week to Liverpool There is a considerable 

 trade with North America, the Baltic, and the Levant On Dea Slst 

 1853 there were registered as belonging to the port, 117 aailing- 

 vessels, of 7694 segregate tonnage, and throe steamers, of 878 tons. 

 During 1868 there entered the port 778 sailing-vessels of 65,873 tons, 

 and 146 steam-vessels of 40,686 tons a^igregate burden; and there 

 cleared 224 sailing-Tessels of 18,097 tons, and 135 steam-vessels of 

 38,266 tons aggregate burden. Quarter and petty sessions are held in 

 the town. Fairs are held on the first Monday after Easter week, and 

 on O -tober 29tb. In Ballybot, a part of the town within the county 

 of Armagh, fairs are held on the Tuesdays after the 18th day of 

 March, June, September, and Norember, The market-days are 

 TusMlay, Thursday, laid Saturday. • 



NEWTON. [Lancashire.] 



NEWTON, or NEWTON ABBOT, Devonshire, a market-town, 

 and the seat of a Poor-Law Union, is situated on the little river 

 Lemon, at the head of the Teign sestuary, in 60° 32' N. lat, 3° 36' 

 W. long., distant 15 miles S. by W. from Exeter, 188 miles 8.W. by W. 

 from London by road, and 214 miles by the Great Western and 

 Bristol and Exeter railway.s. The population of the town of Newton 

 in Ibol was 3147. The livings are in the archdeaconry of Totneg and 

 diocese of Exeter. Newton Abbot Poor-Law Union contains 39 

 parishes and townships, with an area of 117,396 acres, and a popu- 

 lation in 1851 of 52,306. 



Newton Abbot is finely situated on rising: ground on the right bank 

 of the Lemon. On the left bank is that part of the town called 

 Newton Bushel. The town has been considerably improved of late 

 years. The town-hall is a neat building. Besides the parochial chapel 

 there are in Newtun Abbot chapels for ludependeuts and Baptists. 

 The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel in Newton Bushel, and there 

 are Natioual schools. The market-days are Wednesday and Saturday. 

 Fairs are held on June 24th, September 11th, and November 6th. It 

 was at Newton Abbot that William, prince of Orange, afterwards 

 William IIL, made his first public declaration after lan^g at Torbay 

 in 1688. 



NEWTON. [Glamoboanshire ; Lancabhirk] 



NEWTON STEWART. [Wiotonshire.] 



NEWTON-UPON-AYR. [Atrshibe.] 



NEWTOWN, Montgomeryshire, a market-town, parliamentary 

 borough, and the seat of a Poor-Law Union, in the parish of Nevrtown, 

 is situated in a beautiful valley on the right bank of the Severn, in 

 62° 83' N. Ut, 8° 8' W. long., distant 8 miles S.W. from Montgomery, 

 and 175 miles W.N.W. from London. The population of the parlia- 

 mentary borough of Newtown, which is contributory to Montgomery 

 in returning a member to the Imperial Parliament, was 6371 in 1851, 

 The living is a rectory in the archdeaconry of Montgomery and diocese 

 of St Asaph. 



Newtown is the chief seat of the flannel manufacture in Mont- 

 gomeryshire. A spacious flannel hall has been recently erected. The 

 church is a new building ; there are chapels for various bodies of 

 Dissenters, a National school, and a mechanics Institute, with a library 

 of 300 volumes. A county court is held. 'There are several potteries, 

 tan-yards, and malt-kilns. Machinery of various descriptions is manu- 

 factured. The Montgomery Canal commences at this town. Around 

 tbe canal basin, or along the banks of the canal, are lime-kilns, and 

 wharfs and yards for landing and storing coals, bricks, slates, timber, 

 and other articles. Markets are held on Tuesday, Thursday, and 

 Saturday. There are several yearly fairs, one of them a considerable 

 fair for sheep and pigs. 



NEWTOWN. [CoNMEcnctrr ; Wioht, Islb of.J 



NEWTOWNBARHY. [Wextobd, County of.] 



NEWTOWN-BUTLER. [Fermakaoh.] 



NEWT0SVN-K0KBE3. [Lonopobd, County of.] 



NEWTOWN-LIMAVADY, county of Londonderry, Ireland, a 

 market-town, and the seat of a Poor-Law Union, is situated on the 

 right bank of the Roe, and on the Londonderry and Coleraine road, 

 in 55° 3' N. Ut, 6° 56' W. long., dUtant by road 16 miles E.N.E. 

 from Londonderry, 148 miles N. by W. from Dublin. The population 

 in 1861 was 8206, besides 408 inmates of the workhouse. Newtown- 

 limavady Poor-Law Union comprises 19 electoral divisions, with an 

 area of 152,392 acres, and a population in 1851 of 33,899. Newtown- 

 limavady contains a large parish church ; a Rom.^n Catholic chapel ; 

 an Independent, a Methodist, and five Presbyterian chapels; a 

 National school, an Infant school, and a savings bank. There are 

 also a market-house, a dispensary, the Union workhouse, and bride- 

 well Large sales of flax and of general farm produce are made at 

 the markets, which are held on Monday, Tue.fday, and Friday. 

 Quarter and petty sessions are held. Fairs are held March 28th, 

 June 13th, and October 29th. Newtown-limavady, then named the 

 Dog's Leap, was tbe ancient seat of the O'Callans. The town shared 

 in most of the important warlike events of which Londonderry county 

 was the scene in the period subsequent to the conquest. It was 

 incorporated by James II. and returned two members to the Irish 

 Parliament. 



NEWTOWN-STEWART. [Tyrone.] 



NEWTOWNARDS, County Down, Ireland, a market-town, and the 

 seat of a Poor-Law Union, is situated near the head of Lough Strang- 

 ford, on the Belfast and Douagbadee road, in 64° 36' N. Tat, 5' 54' 

 W. long., 12 j miles E. from Belfast by the Belfast and County Down 

 railway, which is opened to the town. The population in 1861 was 

 9567, besides 508 inmates of the workhouse. Newtownards Poor-Law 

 Union comprises 16 electoral divisions, with an area of 93,851 acres, 

 and a population in 1851 of 66,861. The town, pleasantly situated in 

 the midst of hills, is neat, regular, and well built In the Market- 

 square and principal street are many good houses. The parish church 

 is a handsome building, erected in 1817. There are chapels for 

 Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, and Methodists, and three National 

 schools. The old parish church, erected in 1632, a large building 

 with a handsome spire, is now used as a court-house. There are a 

 market-house, a bridewell, and a Union workhouse. The weaving and 

 embroidering of muslin afford a considerable amount of employment. 



