Newtown Jerpoint
Ghost town · Ireland
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 52.510, -7.169
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: medieval lost town in Ireland
History
The medieval lost town of Newtown Jerpoint is just west of the Cistercian Jerpoint Abbey, near Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is located 3.2 km south west from Thomastown just off the R448 regional road. In the grounds of the privately owned Jerpoint Park. St. Nicholas’s Church and graveyard are in the town, where the earthly remains of Saint Nicholas of Myra are said to be buried. Belmore House stands at the top of the town.