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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
In 1868, the parish of Newbawn contained the following places:"NEWBAWN, a parish in the baronies of Bantry and West Shelmaliere, county Wexford, province of Leinster, Ireland, 7 miles S.E. of New Ross. It is 4 miles long, and its greatest breadth is 2½ miles. The surface consists of a light soil. It is traversed by the road from New Ross to Wexford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ferns, value with Adamstown, £595, in the patronage of the bishop. There is a Roman Catholic chapel and two hedge-schools, also a dispensary within the New Ross Poor-law Union. Newbaun House is the chief residence. There are ruins of two castles, and traces of two churches. This spot was the scene of dreadful doings in the rebellion of 1798. It was here the Scullabogue brutality was enacted.
"COURTHOYLE, a village in the barony of Bantry, in the county of Wexford, Ireland, 6 miles E. of New Ross."
"SCULLABOGUE, a spot in county Wexford, province of Leinster, Ireland, 5 miles N.N.W. of Taghmon. It is situated at the foot of Carrickburn Hill, and was the scene of the massacre of upwards of 100 persons by the rebels in 1798."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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