County Longford · Leinster

Edgeworthstown

Meathas Troim

the Irish name means 'frontier of the elder tree'; the English name is for the Edgeworth family

The story

Also called Mostrim. The Edgeworths were the local landlords and an unusually inventive family: Richard Lovell Edgeworth built an optical telegraph and a velocipede, and his daughter Maria wrote Castle Rackrent in 1800, the first Irish regional novel and one Walter Scott said set him on his own path.

Worth seeing nearby
  • Corlea Trackway · An 18-metre stretch of the great oak road of 148 BC, preserved in a climate-controlled hall exactly where the bog swallowed it.
  • Hill of Uisneach · The mythic navel of Ireland, where the five provinces met at the Catstone and the great Bealtaine fire was lit — answered by fires on hills across the island.
  • Hill of Uisneach · Where the goddess Ériu, who gave Ireland its name, met the invading Milesians and was promised the island would bear her name forever. It has.
  • Lough Derravaragh — the Children of Lir · Here the jealous Aoife turned Lir's four children into swans for 900 years — 300 on this lake, 300 on the Sea of Moyle, 300 on the Atlantic.
  • Brí Léith — Midir and Étaín · Midir of the Sídhe played the High King Eochaid at fidchell for his own wife back, lost on purpose until the last game, then took Étaín out through the roof as two swans. Eochaid dug into this hill after her and was given fifty women wearing her face.

All of these are pinned on the Hidden Ireland map.

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