Newtown
Newtown or Newtown Cross is a village in County Laois, Ireland. It is within the townlands of Clonbrock and Doonane. Newtown lies close to the border between Counties Laois and Kilkenny at the point where the R430 regional road from Abbeyleix to Carlow crosses the N78 from Kilkenny to Athy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 246 residents
- Description: village in Leinster, Ireland
- Also known as: “Newtown, County Laois”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Longory’s Well.
St Longory’s Well
Spring
Photo: A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Longory’s Well is a spring, which is situated 4 km south of Newtown.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crettyard and Arless.
Crettyard
Hamlet
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Crettyard is a hamlet in County Laois, Ireland. It is on the border with County Kilkenny, at the junction of the N78 and the R431 roads. Carlow town is 14 km to the east, and Kilkenny city is 22 km to the south. Crettyard is situated 2½ km southwest of Newtown.
Arless
Village
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Arles or Arless is a village in County Laois, Ireland. It lies 2 kilometres northwest of Ballickmoyler and 10 km northwest of Carlow, on the N80 national secondary road. Arless is situated 7 km northeast of Newtown.
Killeshin
Village
Killeshin is a village in County Laois, Ireland on the R430 regional road. Killeshin is a small rural community situated five kilometres west of Carlow town and overlooks the picturesque Barrow Valley. Killeshin is situated 8 km east of Newtown.
Newtown
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Laois, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.86302° or 52° 51′ 47″ northLongitude
-7.11131° or 7° 6′ 41″ westPopulation
246Elevation
199 metres (653 feet)Open location code
9C4JVV7Q+6FOpenStreetMap ID
node 52258689OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2962245Wikidata ID
Q4328376
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Newtown” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Newtown”
- Bengali: “নিউটাউন”
- Cebuano: “Newtown”
- Chinese: “纽敦”
- Dutch: “Newtown”
- Irish: “An Baile Nua, Contae Laoise”
- Irish: “An Baile Nua”
- Japanese: “レーイシュ州”
- Russian: “Ньютаун”
- Spanish: “Newtown”
- Swedish: “Newtown, Leinster”
- Swedish: “Newtown”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Barrack Grove and Crettyard GAA Club.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Newtown”. Photo: Sarah777, Public domain.