placenamesNewbawn
An Bábhún Nua
The architectural survey records a house already standing by 1825 and changed before 1922.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Bábhún Nua · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Newbawn · English · main form
Place & story
Older fabric within a changed house
The Newbawn farmhouse recorded by the architectural inventory was standing by 1825, on a site leased from Robert Leigh in 1791. Changes before 1922 produced its later form. A porch partly conceals the original entrance fanlight, while sash windows retain some crown or cylinder glass. Granite sills and surviving timber frames sit alongside later roof materials. The house records successive alterations rather than an unchanged building belonging entirely to its earliest period. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Bantry
- Barony
- Shelmaliere West
- Coordinates
- 52.36294, -6.77744
- Mapped area
- 30.42 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2599 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Newbawn. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Newbawn farmhouse, NIAH 15703522, recorded 2 October 2007 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-10-19. How this page was prepared.