placenamesRossmire
Ros Mír
Lewis recorded an unfinished settlement scheme at Newtown within the Waterford parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ros Mír · Irish · main form · validated name
- Rossmire · English · main form
Place & story
A layout ahead of the houses
In his 1837 description of Rossmire parish in County Waterford, Samuel Lewis recorded an attempt to create a new town at Newtown. Streets had been laid out and paved, yet only a few houses followed. Most of those houses had already fallen into ruin by the time of his account. He located the scheme near the meeting of Upperthird, Middlethird and Decies-without-Drum baronies, within Rossmire parish. [2]
A parish with other centres
Lewis supplied neither the promoter’s name nor a date for the Newtown scheme. His wider parish account included Kilmacthomas, described separately as a post-town, and recorded an 1831 Board of First Fruits loan of £750 towards the parish church. The loan belonged to church construction; it was not identified as funding for Newtown’s paved streets. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Glenahiry
- Barony
- Decies-without-Drum
- Barony
- Upperthird
- Coordinates
- 52.21641, -7.37142
- Mapped area
- 32.45 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2423 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rossmire. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rossmere, Rossmire or Rossmore, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.