Edgeworthstown

Edgeworthstown or Mostrim (Irish: Meathas Troim, meaning "frontier of the elder tree") is a town in County Longford, Ireland. The Edgeworthstown name is derived from the Edgeworth Family (which includes novelist Maria Edgeworth and economist Francis Ysidro Edgeworth) who have a long association with the town as the family estate of Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont was nearby, while Mostrim is an anglicisation of the town's pre-conquest Irish name Meathas Troim. The town is located in the east of the county near the border with County Westmeath. Nearby administrative centres include Longford 12km to the west, Mullingar 26 km to the east, Athlone 40 km to the south and Cavan 42 km to the north. The town is built where the N4 Dublin-Sligo/...