NEWROSS, a borough town in the county of Wexford, and province of Leinster, in Ireland, 67 miles from Dublin. This town was formerly walled, and some of the gates still remain. It lies on the river Barrow, which is here very deep, and ships of burden can come up to the quay even when the tide is out. The church is large, but the customhouse and quay are both small, and sometimes overflooded many feet. It is one of the staple ports for exporting wool, yet its trade is but inconsiderable; beef and butter are the principal articles exported. Here is a barrack for a troop of horse, and a good ferry into the county of Kilkenny. Near this town is a charter school. It is also a post town, and gives title of earl to the family of Gore. It was formerly fortified, and adorned with
Newspapers with many religious houses, among which was a crouched friary, built on the summit of a hill in the town; but one of the friars having killed a principal inhabitant, the whole body of the people arose, put the friars to death, and totally destroyed the friary; on the site of which the monastery of St. Saviour, for conventual Franciscans, was afterwards erected by Sir John Devereux; and the east end of this last building is now the parish church. A friary for Eremites, following the rule of St. Augustine, was also founded here in the reign of Edward III.