placenamesNewtownhamilton
Baile Úr
Lewis recorded a Saturday market, monthly livestock fairs and the removal of quarter sessions from the town.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Úr · Irish · main form
- Newtownhamilton · English · main form
Place & story
Markets and court meetings in 1837
Newtownhamilton’s Saturday market sold provisions, while fairs on the last Saturday of each month traded cattle, horses, pigs and butter, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. Petty sessions met on alternate Fridays. The courthouse had also hosted the county’s quarter sessions until 1826, when those sessions moved elsewhere. These were distinct schedules and functions: weekly market trading, monthly fairs and fortnightly petty sessions continued in Lewis’s account after the town lost its quarter-session role. He did not identify the later venue in this entry. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Fews Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.15721, -6.63748 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 50.21 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2736 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Newtownhamilton. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Newtown-Hamilton — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-12-20. How this page was prepared.