Townparks

199 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Townparks, from 3 m² to 139,734 m² (13.97 ha, 34.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Townparks.

Recorded monuments

• LF008-035 Church
  Description

  At the SW end of Newtown Forbes, within the W half of a graveyard (LF008-035001-). According to Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 365), this church was built around 1694. The Forbes family records indicate that the first Earl of Granard, who died in 1696, 'built from the foundation the Church of Newtown Forbes, where, in a vault under the Church, he and his family have since been buried' (Hastings 1868, 69). Described by Nicholas Dowdall in 1682 as ‘a fair and Large Church Sumptuously adorned’ (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 208). This church may have been incorporated into the present 19th-century church. There is a 17th-century headstone (LF008-035002-) to the S of it. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF008-035001 Graveyard
  Description

  Associated with a late-medieval church (LF008-035----). This large irregularly shaped graveyard (85m E-W; 50m N-S) is enclosed by a stone wall topped with iron railings on the E side, facing onto the main street of Newtownforbes village. Access is via a gate in the E wall. Memorials mainly date from the 19th and 20th centuries but some inscriptions are illegible. The graveyard is still in use. A 17th-century headstone (LF008-035002-) lies to the S of the church. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF008-035002 Headstone
  Description

  In the graveyard (LF008-035001-), to the S of the church (LF008-035----), in Newtownforbes. This small 17th-century sandstone headstone (Wth 0.7m; H 0.35m; T 0.1m) is inscribed as follows: 'HERE LYETH/INTERRD THE/BODY OF JOHN/FRAZER WHO/DEPARTED THIS/LIFE ..DAY/……./….1698'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF008-038 Historic town
  Description

  In low-lying pasture to the SE of the demesne of Castleforbes. Newtown Forbes was established as an estate village by Sir Arthur Forbes in 1622 when he was granted lands in Longford as part of the plantation of the county (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 540 1). Described in 1682 by Nicholas Dowdall as ‘a handsome Town wherein are fine stone houses and more a building’, with ‘a fair and Large Church [LF008-035----] Sumptuously adorned' (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 208). In 1690 the village was attacked and set on fire by Roman Catholic Irish forces (Hastings 1868, 66). It consists of a street, aligned roughly N-S, with dwellings on either side of it. At its S end is a 19th-century (C of I) church. 'Castle Forbes' (LF008-012----), the seat of the founding family, is situated c. 1km to the NW of the village. The modern streetscape dates from the 18th and 19th centuries. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 July 2013

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched rail bridge carrying road over the Dublin to Sligo railway line, built c. 1857. Segmental-headed arch with rock-faced limestone voussoirs. Constructed of coursed/snecked rock-faced limestone with rock-faced limestone coping over parapets. Located to the north of Newtown-Forbes Railway Station (13303018) and to the northeast of Newtown-Forbes.

• Newtown Forbes Railway Station, railway station, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former railway station, built c. 1860, with single-storey extensions to south and rear (east). Now a private house. Hipped artificial slate roof with moulded rendered chimneystacks. Snecked limestone walls with redbrick relieving arch above door and with (flush) cut limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings with replacement windows having flush limestone block-and-start surrounds and tooled limestone sills. Central segmental-headed door opening (to east elevation) with tooled limestone surround and glazed timber door. Flight of limestone steps leading from door to former platform. Cut limestone edging/kerbing to former platform. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate and cut limestone gate pier to north of site. Rubble limestone boundary wall to the north. Corrugated-metal outbuilding located to south of site. Located to east of Newtown-Forbes.

• Saint Paul's Church (Clongesh), church/chapel, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church on cruciform-plan, built or rebuilt c. 1829, having single-bay transepts to the north and south, single-bay chancel to the east and a two-stage tower on square-plan attached to the west. Possibly incorporating the fabric of an earlier church, c. 1694 to site. Pitched natural slate roof with dressed limestone crow-stepped parapets to gables with cut stone corner pinnacles/finials to ends, cast-iron rainwater goods and cut stone eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls over cut stone plinth with rubble limestone walls to tower. Tudor-arched/Perpendicular Gothic window to chancel gable under cut stone hood moulding with carved timber tracery, decorative iron window panes and cut stone surrounds. Pointed arch window openings under cut stone hood mouldings to transepts with carved timber tracery, decorative iron window panes and cut stone surrounds. Pointed and Tudor-arched door openings with hoodmouldings, timber tracery to overlight and double leaf timber panelled doors. Interesting interior with cusped rib-vaulting to roof, cusped timber panelling to walls, timber galleries to the transepts, timber pulpit, timber box pews with fielded panelling, and a collection of memorial monuments to the Forbes family of Castle Forbes (13303001). Set in own grounds with graveyard to site having collection of upstanding and recumbent grave markers, some with elaborate cast-iron railings. Freestanding mausoleum (13303022) to the north. Rubble limestone boundary wall to road-frontage (east) having modern cast-iron railings over. Entrance gates to the east comprising a pair of cut limestone gate piers on square-plan having capstones and cast-iron gates. Located to the centre of Newtown-Forbes, to the west side of the main street.

• Saint Paul's Church (Clongesh), mausoleum, 1970–1975 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding pedimented tetrastyle Greek Revival style mausoleum, erected 1972. Comprising white marble Doric columns in antis surmounted by carved frieze and pediment, accessed via cut limestone steps. Square-headed metal door. Located within St. Paul's Church of Ireland graveyard, to the north end of the church enclosure (13303021), and to the centre of Newtown-Forbes.

• Water pump, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c. 1875. Comprising banded shaft with fluting to spout and decorative cap and finial. Turning handle and wheel to sides of pump. Set back from street to the east side of main street running through Newtown-Forbes.

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, mausoleum, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached single-bay gable-fronted Gothic style mausoleum, built c. 1870. Pitched limestone flagged roof with raised cut limestone verge to the east end having a carved stone Celtic cross final to gable apex. Cut stone eaves courses in form of continuous kneeler stones. Snecked rock-faced limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins to the corners and cut limestone quatrefoil motifs to the side elevations, two to each side. Pointed arch door opening to the front elevation (east) with banded cut stone colonnettes, chamfered reveals, moulded cut stone head, moulded hoodmoulding and double-leaf timber doors with wrought-iron straps/hinges. Carved coat of arms of Forbes family over doorway, to pointed arch recess above door, flanked to either side by pierced quatrefoil motifs. Cut limestone quatrefoil motif above door opening to gable apex. Located within the grounds of St. Mary's Roman Catholic church (1303026), abutting chancel gable.

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built 1861 - 64, remodeled and roof lowered in 1974. Comprising six-bay nave with a single-bay entrance porch to the north elevation and shallow chancel to the east having sacristy attached to the south. Pitched metal-sheeted roof with gablets/rooflights. Central pyramidal spire-like rooflight to east end, lighting chancel. Snecked limestone walls with flush quoins to the corners. Clasping coursed limestone buttresses to the entrance front (west), flanking main entrance and to the corners, and at corners of chancel (east), having cut stone plinths and stepped heads. Paired pointed arch window openings to nave with chamfered cut surrounds. Pointed arch windows to front elevation (east) with cut limestone plate tracery. Shouldered window openings to sacristy. Three graded pointed arch lancet openings to chancel gable having chamfered cut stone surrounds and stained glass windows. Pointed arch door opening to centre of front elevation (east) with chamfered cut limestone surround/reveal, double-leaf timber door and hoodmoulding over with carved label stops in the form of human faces. Pointed arch door opening to porch to north elevation with chamfered limestone surround, double-leaf timber door and with hood moulding over with squared limestone stops. Pointed arch door opening to sacristy with block-and-start limestone surround and limestone steps. Modernised interior with open truss steel roof. Located to the centre of Newtown-Forbes, to the east side of the main street. Forbes family mausoleum (13303025) to rear (east), abutting chancel gable.

• House, 1820–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1850. Steeply pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to either end (north and south) and a raised rendered verge to the south gable. Painted roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered quoins and plinth. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows having painted sills. Central square-headed door opening with timber battened door having plain overlight above. Fronts directly onto street to the west side of the main street running through Newtown-Forbes.

• Saint Michael's Convent of Mercy, convent/nunnery, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eleven-bay two-storey former convent, built 1869, having a central single-bay gable-fronted breakfront to the centre of the main elevation (east). Central two-storey return to the rear (west) and convent chapel (13303030) attached to the north end. Originally in use as an orphanage. Later in use as a boarding school, now in use as apartments. Hipped artificial slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting and five moulded rendered chimneystacks. Pitched artificial slate roof to breakfront with raised verge having kneeler stones and with a Celtic cross finial over. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth with raised quoins to the corners of main building and to breakfront. Pointed-segmental/Tudor-arched window openings to ground floor with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window, overlights and painted render surrounds and sills. Square-headed window openings to first floor with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows having render surrounds. Bipartite pointed-segmental/Tudor-arched window opening to breakfront at ground floor level (possibly originally a doorway) with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, plain overlight, hoodmoulding over and flanked to either side by ogee-headed window openings with square-headed windows. Oriel window to breakfront at first floor level having rendered mullions and with string courses over. Statue over oriel window. Pointed arch door openings to rear west having timber battened doors with overlights. Set back from road in own grounds to the north end of Newtown-Forbes. Modern boundary wall to road-frontage, modern apartment blocks to the rear. Nuns' graveyard to the west/southwest (not viewed).

• Saint Michael's Convent of Mercy, church/chapel, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached former convent church on cruciform-plan, built c. 1897, with three-bay nave to the east, single-bay transepts to the north and south, polygonal chancel to the west, single-storey sacristy attached to the north side of the chancel and a bell-tower on (square-plan) attached to the east end having a slated spire over. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting and wrought-iron cross finials to gable ends and over spire. Painted smooth rendered walls over chamfered plinth with flush limestone quoins to the corners and limestone buttresses to the corners and to the sides of nave. Pointed arch window openings, some paired, with block-and-start limestone surrounds and rose windows to transept gables, all having stained glass. Tripartite window to chancel gable with Geometric tracery and stained glass windows. Ogee-headed window openings to sacristy. Pointed arch door openings to tower at belfry level having louvered fittings. Pointed arch door openings with block-and-start limestone surrounds and granite steps. Shouldered door opening to sacristy with block-and-start limestone surround. Located to north of former convent (13303029) and to the north end of Newtown-Forbes.

• Vent pipe, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron vent pipe, erected c. 1900, comprising of fluted pedestal with moulded detailing, cylindrical shaft over with banding at intervals and a saw-tooth profiled crown. Located within the grounds of the Church of Ireland church (13303021) and the graveyard, Newtown-Forbes.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Townparks, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1693 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Townparks with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Townparks · Páirceanna an Bhaile

Area

559,231 m² (55.92 ha, 138.19 acres)

Civil parish

Clongesh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Newtown Forbes, the unit of the census

Census 2022

985 people lived in 411 households in the Newtown Forbes electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castleforbes Demesne, Corry, Lamagh, Lisbrack, Lismoy, St. Anne's Glebe

Placenames

Townparks on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.