Edgeworthstown
Sign in to saveEdgeworthstown or Mostrim () is a small town in County Longford, Ireland. The town is in the east of the county, near the border with County Westmeath. Nearby towns are Longford 12 km to the west, Mullingar 26 km to the east, Athlone 40 km to the south and Cavan 42 km to the north. The N4 and N55 roads meet in the town. The town is in the townland of Edgeworthstown and in the civil parish of Mostrim.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Edgeworthstown
- Settlement.other_name
- Mostrim
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 800px-IMG Edgeworthstown5469.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Edgeworthstown's main street
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ireland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Leinster
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- County Longford
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 82
- Settlement.population_total
- 2,199
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Longford
- Elevation
- 82
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- 800px-IMG Edgeworthstown5469.jpg
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- Commons category
- Edgeworthstown
- Irish Grid Reference
- N256719
- historic county
- County Longford
- P12749
- Julius Faucher
- native label
- Meathas Troim
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Edgeworthstown or Mostrim () is a small town in County Longford, Ireland. The town is in the east of the county, near the border with County Westmeath. Nearby towns are Longford 12 km to the west, Mullingar 26 km to the east, Athlone 40 km to the south and Cavan 42 km to the north. The N4 and N55 roads meet in the town. The town is in the townland of Edgeworthstown and in the civil parish of Mostrim.
==Name== thumb|Edgeworthstown House, home of the Edgeworth family The area was named Edgeworthstown in the 19th century after the Anglo-Irish Edgeworth family. An estate was built there by Richard Lovell Edgeworth. His family—which includes Honora Sneyd (his second wife), writer and intellectual Maria Edgeworth, botanist Michael Pakenham Edgeworth, economist Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, and priest Henry Essex Edgeworth—lived at the estate.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edgeworthstown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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