{{Short description|Town in County Longford, Ireland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Edgeworthstown |other_name = Mostrim |native_name = {{lang|ga|Meathas Troim}} |native_name_lang = ga |settlement_type = Town |image_skyline = 800px-IMG Edgeworthstown5469.jpg |image_caption = Edgeworthstown's main street |pushpin_map = Ireland |pushpin_label_position = right |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ireland |coordinates = {{coord|53.696555|-7.609696|dim:100000_region:IE|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = Ireland |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_type3 = County |subdivision_name1 = Leinster |subdivision_name3 = County Longford |established_title = |established_date = |unit_pref = Metric |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 = |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = 82 |population_total = 2,199 |population_as_of = 2022 |population_footnotes = <ref name=cso2022>{{cite web | url = https://visual.cso.ie/?body=entity/ima/cop/2022&boundary=C04160V04929&guid=ee8ca84c-8227-49cf-b1ec-cc5a9b322242 | work = Census 2022 | title = Census Mapping - Towns: Edgeworthstown - Population Snapshot | publisher = Central Statistics Office (Ireland) | access-date = 2 March 2024 }}</ref> |population_density_km2 = auto |website = |footnotes = |blank_name = Irish Grid Reference |blank_info = {{iem4ibx|N256719}} | area_code_type = Telephone area code | area_code = +353(0)43 | postal_code_type =Eircode routing key | postal_code =N39 |timezone = WET |utc_offset = ±0 |timezone_DST = IST |utc_offset_DST = +1 }} '''Edgeworthstown''' or '''Mostrim''' ({{Irish place name|Meathas Troim|frontier of the elder tree}}<ref>A. D. Mills, 2003, ''A Dictionary of British Place-Names'', Oxford University Press</ref>) is a small town in County Longford, Ireland. The town is in the east of the county, near the border with County Westmeath. Nearby towns are Longford 12 km to the west, Mullingar 26 km to the east, Athlone 40 km to the south and Cavan 42 km to the north. The N4 and N55 roads meet in the town. The town is in the townland of Edgeworthstown and in the civil parish of Mostrim.<ref name=logainm>{{cite web | url = https://www.logainm.ie/32971.aspx | publisher = Irish Placenames Commission | title = Meathas Troim / Edgeworthstown | access-date = 3 September 2018 | archive-date = 24 September 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210924175521/https://www.logainm.ie/ga/32971 | url-status = live }}</ref>
==Name== thumb|Edgeworthstown House, home of the Edgeworth family The area was named Edgeworthstown in the 19th century after the Anglo-Irish Edgeworth family. An estate was built there by Richard Lovell Edgeworth. His family—which includes Honora Sneyd (his second wife), writer and intellectual Maria Edgeworth, botanist Michael Pakenham Edgeworth, economist Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, and priest Henry Essex Edgeworth—lived at the estate.
The area's original name was the Irish ''Meathas Troim'' or ''Meathas Truim''.<ref name=logainm/> This was anglicized as ''Mastrim'' or ''Mostrim'' and variants. These names continued to be used by the locals. In 1935, at the behest of the local Town Tenants' Association, Longford County Council officially changed the town's name to Mostrim.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://ied.dippam.ac.uk/records/25662 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20121223033940/http://ied.dippam.ac.uk/records/25662 | url-status = dead | archive-date = 23 December 2012 | title = Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford renamed Mostrim | publisher = The Belfast Weekly News | date = 29 August 1935 }}</ref> However, in 1974, a local government order reverted the name to Edgeworthstown.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1974/en/si/0166.html | title = S.I. No. 166/1974 — Local Government (Change of Name of Non-Municipal Town) Order, 1974 | publisher = Irish Statute Book | date = 31 May 1974 | access-date = 1 July 2012 | archive-date = 8 April 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140408224534/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1974/en/si/0166.html | url-status = live }}</ref> Today, both names are in use.
==Infrastructure== The town is located where the N4 Dublin-Sligo/ N5 Dublin-Castlebar road crosses the N55 Cavan-Athlone road. The town also has a railway station on the Dublin–Sligo railway line. Edgeworthstown railway station opened on 8 November 1855.<ref>{{cite web | title=Edgeworthstown station | work=Railscot - Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | access-date=2007-09-05 | archive-date=26 September 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926042407/http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref> Edgeworthstown expanded significantly during the first decade of the 21st century with many new housing developments and updated transport infrastructure including a bypass. The N4 National primary route formerly ran along the Main Street until the town centre was bypassed in mid-2006.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/news/3km-bypass-in-longford-completed-after-year-1.1012295 | work = Irish Times | first = Tim | last = O'Brien | title = 3km bypass in Longford completed after year | date = 5 June 2006 | accessdate = 9 February 2024 }}</ref> The N55 route from Athlone to Cavan still passes through the town centre.
==Industry== Industries include animal feed processing and pet food manufacturing, with Paul & Vincent Limited and C & D Foods Limited employing several hundred people in the area. The latter, C & D Foods Limited, reopened a pet food plant in 2014 following an earlier fire.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/News/PressReleases/2014-Press-Releases/CandD-Foods-open-state-of-the-art-facility-at-Edgeworthstown.html | publisher = Enterprise Ireland | title = Press Release - C&D Foods open state of the art facility at Edgeworthstown | date = 7 November 2014 | access-date = 3 September 2018 | archive-date = 4 September 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180904052333/https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/News/PressReleases/2014-Press-Releases/CandD-Foods-open-state-of-the-art-facility-at-Edgeworthstown.html | url-status = live }}</ref>
==Sport== The local Gaelic Athletic Association club is named Mostrim, while the minor section of the club is called Wolfe Tones GAA. The club has won three Longford Senior Football Championships, in 1974, 1985 and 1992.<ref name="longfordgaa">{{cite web | url = http://longfordgaa.ie/club-title-details/ | publisher = Longford GAA | title = Longford Club Championships - Club Titles | access-date = 3 September 2018 | archive-date = 29 August 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180829212728/http://longfordgaa.ie/club-title-details/ | url-status = live }}</ref> In Gaelic football, Mostrim won an u-21 championship 2002 and the Wolfe Tones minor team won Minor A Championships in 2002 and in 2006. In hurling, Wolfe Tones has won a record 19 Longford Senior Hurling Championship titles.<ref name="longfordgaa"/> Hugh Devine Park is the home pitch for both Mostrim and Wolfe Tones.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://edgeworthstownparish.ie/index.php/business-directory-2/2740/mostrim-gaa-club/ | publisher = edgeworthstownparish.ie | title = Directory - Sports - Mostrim GAA Club | access-date = 3 September 2018 | archive-date = 16 November 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171116033422/http://edgeworthstownparish.ie/index.php/business-directory-2/2740/mostrim-gaa-club/ | url-status = live }}</ref>
A local soccer club, Mostrim United, has played in the Longford & District Schoolboy/girl League.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://longfordld.leaguerepublic.com/l/team/472453226/60145779.html | publisher = leaguerepublic.com | title = Longford & District Schoolboy/girl Soccer League - Mostrim United | access-date = 3 September 2018 | archive-date = 4 September 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180904052335/https://longfordld.leaguerepublic.com/l/team/472453226/60145779.html | url-status = live }}</ref>
==People== * James Byrnes (1806–1886), member of the New South Wales Legislative Council New South Wales Legislative Assembly<ref name="James Byrnes NSW Parl">{{Cite NSW Parliament |id=312 |name=Mr James Byrnes (1806-1886) |former=Yes |access-date=21 January 2025}}</ref> * Henry Essex Edgeworth (1745–1807), the confessor of Louis XVI{{fact|date=January 2025}} * Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849), writer, lived at Edgeworthstown House<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Maria Edgeworth: Anglo-Irish author |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/179111/Maria-Edgeworth |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=21 January 2025 }}</ref> * Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926), Anglo-Irish philosopher<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bowley |first=Arthur L. |date=1934 |title=Francis Ysidro Edgeworth |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1906895 |journal=Econometrica |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=113–124 |doi=10.2307/1906895 |issn=0012-9682 | accessdate = 21 January 2025 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> * Bernard A. Maguire (1818–1886), Jesuit who became the president of Georgetown University<ref>{{Cite journal|last=J. A. M.|date=March 1887|title=Father Bernard A. Maguire: A Sketch|url=http://jesuitarchives.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/woodstock-016.pdf|journal=Woodstock Letters|volume=XVI|issue=1|pages=3–10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200913041850/http://jesuitarchives.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/woodstock-016.pdf|archive-date=13 September 2020|access-date=13 September 2020|via=Jesuit Archives}}</ref> * John Phillips (c.1840–1917), Nationalist Party MP for South Longford<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002912/19170404/063/0003 | via = britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk | quote = Mr John Phillips M.P. died on Monday evening at 5 o'clock at his residence, Corboy, Edgeworthstown, at the age of 77 years | date = 4 April 1917 | newspaper = Munster News | place = Limerick | title = Obituary }}</ref>
==See also== *List of towns and villages in Ireland *Market Houses in Ireland *Granard
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Edgeworthstown}} * [http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13309011 St John's Church of Ireland Church, Edgeworthstown (Buildings of Ireland)] * [http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/history-heritage/big-houses-of-ireland/edworthstown-house-co.-lo/ Edgeworthstown House]
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