aka
Lowtherstown
north-eastern County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
approx 54° 26'N 7° 32'W
- Abuts the Tyrone county border. Known as
Lowtherstown in the early nineteenth century; a town, with rly.
stn. (G.N.I.R.), p.o., t.o., pop. 785 (c1960), lies 14km (8m)
due north of Enniskillen, and 6km (3½m) northwest of Bundoran
Junction and Magheracross. The seat of Castle Irvine is in the
vicinity.
- Lewis, Samuel, 1849, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 2nd. ed. [on request only]
- Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, 1844
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- [Lewis, Samuel, 1849, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 2nd. ed.]:
- IRVINESTOWN, or LOWTHERSTOWN, a market and post town, and the head of a union, in that part of the parish of DERRYVULLEN which is in the barony of LURG, county of FERMANAGH, and province of ULSTER, 73/4 miles (N.W.) from Enniskillen, and 881/4 (S.W.) from Dublin, on the road from Enniskillen to Kesh; containing 1388 inhabitants. It consists of one street of 242 houses, and contains a chapel of ease, a handsome building with a spire, erected in 1831, at an expense of £2300, of which £1385 were granted as a loan by the Board of First Fruits. There are also two Methodist meeting-houses, a school on Eramus Smith's foundation, and a dispensary. The town is a constabulary police station, and has petty-sessions on alternate Wednesdays: the market is on Wednesday, and fairs are held on the 8th of each month and on the 12th of April. The union workhouse, on a site of five acres purchased for £598, was completed in 1842, at a cost of £4950. and is constructed to admit 400 paupers.
- [Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, 1844]:
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- [Lewis, Samuel, 1849, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 2nd. ed.]:
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