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Town guide · Central Longford Longford TownCathedral, market streets, the Camlin and a greenway branch in the county town.125 local listings in the directoryExplore the guide Town guide · North-east Longford GranardThe Norman motte is the landmark, but Granard has a long market-town story too.19 local listings in the directoryExplore the guide Town guide · South Longford BallymahonAn Inny-side market town with an old courthouse, handsome stone bridge and Newcastle Wood nearby.25 local listings in the directoryExplore the guide Literary heritage · East Longford EdgeworthstownLiterary history, the Edgeworth family papers and a lively modern Main Street.11 local listings in the directoryExplore the guide Waterside town · West Longford LanesboroughThe Shannon, Lough Ree and the wooded Commons walk just beyond the town.24 local listings in the directoryExplore the guide Canal village · North-west Longford Cloondara & Richmond HarbourHistoric Richmond Harbour and the Royal Canal’s meeting with the Shannon.3 local listings in the directoryExplore the guide Ancient history · Near Kenagh Corlea Iron Age RoadwayAn 18-metre stretch of a timber road built in 148 BC survives in the Longford bog.Explore the guide Nature & waterways · West Longford Lough Ree & the ShannonLough Ree’s islands, Shannon waters and the Lanesborough shoreline.Explore the guide The 1798 Rising · North County Longford Ballinamuck and the defeat of 1798In September 1798, the French-led campaign ended in the fields around Ballinamuck.Explore the guide History & local records · Across the county Where to begin with Longford historyFive centuries are not enough to explain Longford. Start with a place, then follow its records.Explore the guide Family history · Research guide Start your Longford family historyUseful archives, census records and a starting method for tracing County Longford ancestors.Explore the guide Heritage village · South-east Longford ArdaghThe nineteenth-century estate village, its memorial tower and earlier church history.0 local listings in the directoryExplore the guide Rebellion history · North Longford BallinamuckThe decisive September 1798 battle and a village that remembers what followed.4 local listings in the directoryExplore the guide Local history · North Longford DrumlishThe Land War, an old mill and a local heritage trail give Drumlish a history you can still trace.10 local listings in the directoryExplore the guide Ancient landscapes · South Longford KenaghAn Iron Age timber road, an 1878 clock tower and old thatched buildings close to the Royal Canal.5 local listings in the directoryExplore the guide Village heritage · North-west Longford NewtownforbesCastleforbes estate records, an old village centre and a community-created bog walk.10 local listings in the directoryExplore the guide Medieval heritage · Abbeyshrule Abbeyshrule Cistercian AbbeyA twelfth-century Cistercian foundation beside the River Inny.Explore the guide Historical route · Across County Longford Longford Rebel TrailFollow the places connected with Longford’s revolutionary history, 1798 to 1923.Explore the guide Social history · Local history The Land War in DrumlishAn introduction to land reform, rural life and the memorial to the Land War in Drumlish.Explore the guide Industrial heritage · County Longford waterways The canal and harbour places of LongfordRichmond Harbour, old locks and the Longford branch are reminders that the canal was built for work.Explore the guide Village & War of Independence · North Longford BallinaleeA village with an old crossroads, the Camlin and a powerful chapter of War of Independence history.8 local listings in the directoryExplore the guide Canal village · West Longford KillasheeA canal village where lock gates, cut-stone bridges and a lock keeper’s house survive.1 local listing in the directoryExplore the guide Townlands & local history · South-east Longford LeganOld field names, a three-arch bridge and the everyday buildings of a rural village.1 local listing in the directoryExplore the guide Medieval monuments · Abbeylara Abbeylara Cistercian AbbeyRuins of the Cistercian house founded in 1205, with later graves and centuries of local history.Explore the guide Prehistoric heritage · Aughnacliffe Aughnacliffe Portal TombAn unusual double-capstone portal tomb in the hills of north Longford.Explore the guide War of Independence · Ballinalee Rose Cottage Heritage CentreA restored village cottage that now tells the story of the Battle of Ballinalee.Explore the guide Norman heritage · Granard Knights & Conquests Heritage CentreAn indoor introduction to Granard’s Norman past and its remarkable motte.Explore the guide Literature & museums · Edgeworthstown Maria Edgeworth CentreLiterature, education and local history in an Edgeworthstown schoolhouse.Explore the guide Rebellion history · Ballinamuck Ballinamuck Visitor CentreThe Year of the French and the September 1798 battle, interpreted in the village.Explore the guide Arts & local history · Ardagh Ardagh Heritage & Creativity CentreArdagh’s heritage and creative activities in a former village school.Explore the guide Walking & remembrance · Cloondara to Abbeyshrule National Famine Way through LongfordA commemorative canal walk following the route of 1,490 emigrants in 1847.Explore the guide Early Christian heritage · Near Newtowncashel, Lough Ree Saints IslandMonastic remains and wildlife habitat on the south-eastern shore of Lough Ree.Explore the guide Driving trail · Across County Longford Longford Literary TrailFollow the county’s links with Edgeworth, Goldsmith, Pádraic Colum and others.Explore the guide Town walking · Longford Town Longford Town & the Mall WalkThe Camlin, parkland and an easy walk close to the centre of Longford.Explore the guide Archival research · Longford Archives Exploring the Edgeworth Family PapersA practical introduction to the surviving documents of the Edgeworth family.Explore the guide Social history · Canal corridor, south Longford Longford and the National Famine WayFollow the story of famine migration along the canal through County Longford.Explore the guide Medieval history · Granard Medieval Granard: town and motteExplore the links between the motte, the town and the Norman period.Explore the guide People & literature · Across County Longford Writers with Longford connectionsMeet a handful of writers whose lives intersected with County Longford.Explore the guide Industrial heritage · Cloondara, Abbeyshrule and Longford The Royal Canal in County LongfordFrom a transport artery to a walking and cycling route.Explore the guide Famine & social history · Longford Town Longford Workhouse during the Great FamineAt Glack, the workhouse built for 1,000 people had more residents than beds by October 1847.Explore the guide Roads & local government · Countywide Longford’s roads and bridges in the Grand Jury recordsWhat eighteenth- and nineteenth-century county accounts reveal about familiar roads, bridges and buildings.Explore the guide Genealogy research · Countywide Finding a Longford family in three censusesUsing the 1901, 1911 and newly released 1926 returns without losing track of the right household.Explore the guide Land & family history · Countywide Who occupied your Longford townland in 1854?Griffith’s Valuation is a useful guide to holdings and occupiers, but it is not a family census.Explore the guide Women & community life · Across County Longford The women’s groups that shaped Longford lifeThe Irish Countrywomen’s Association papers preserve decades of meetings, projects and photographs.Explore the guide Revolution & remembrance · Across the county Longford during the revolutionary yearsBallinalee is one well-known chapter in the county’s experience of war, division and political change.Explore the guide Family history records · Across the county Searching Longford burial registersWhich records survive in the County Archives, and what to do when a name is missing.Explore the guide Engineering history · Cloondara & south Longford 1817: the Royal Canal reaches CloondaraThe engineering work that brought the Royal Canal west to Richmond Harbour and the Shannon.Explore the guide Shannon lakeside · South-west Longford NewtowncashelA village near Lough Ree, with Saints Island, Barley Harbour and lakeshore crafts in the surrounding district.0 local listings in the directoryExplore the guide Bogland trail · Near Ballinamuck Edenmore Bog WalkA roughly 4.5 km loop through bogland near historic Ballinamuck.Explore the guide Castle ruins · South of Lanesborough Rathcline CastleA private castle ruin showing medieval and seventeenth-century building phases.Explore the guide Village & community heritage · Killoe, North Longford CullyfadAn old Killoe parish village, with an 1826 church and a community garden.Explore the guide Village & local memory · Killoe, North Longford EnnybegsA Killoe village whose church and Titanic memorial connect everyday local history with a world-famous tragedy.Explore the guide Village & parish history · Central Longford MoydowAn old parish settlement with churches, churchyards and names recorded in early maps.Explore the guide Architecture & civic history · Ballymahon Ballymahon Market HouseA former market house and courthouse, now used as the town library.Explore the guide Local history trail · Drumlish and surrounding townlands Drumlish Heritage TrailTwenty-one local history points assembled by the Drumlish Heritage & History Society.Explore the guide Local lives & remembrance · Ennybegs, Killoe Ennybegs Titanic MemorialA memorial to James Farrell, who died on the Titanic while helping other passengers.Explore the guide Village & townland history · South Longford CarrickboyA small south Longford village whose older records reveal a barracks, bogland and estate houses.Explore the guide Village & churchyard · South Longford TaghshinnyA former fair green, a church with centuries of alterations and well-kept architectural details.Explore the guide

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