LONGFORD, the county town, is situate on the River Camlin, in the midst of an extensive plain of mixed pasture, tillage, swamp, and bog land, interrupted only towards the S. by the hill of Fenighfadd, which rises to a height of 200 feet. It contains a Protestant church and a Roman Catholic chapel, a gaol, a court-house, a market-house, a union workhouse, and barracks for cavalry and infantry. It has a tolerable share of inland trade, which has been much enlarged by the extension of the line of the Royal Canal through it. Here are also extensive stores, corn mills, tanyards, &c. Its population amounted in 1851 to 4614 souls.