Newbliss Co. Monaghan

Described in the 1868 edition of The National gazetteer : a topographical dictionary of the British Islands as “a station on the Irish North-Western railway. It is situated on the road from Ballybay to Clones, near Lough Leesborough. It contains a church, Presbyterian meeting-house, and two schools ; also a police station, market-house, and dispensary, which last is in the Clones Poor-law Union. Saturday is market day. A fair is held monthly for cattle.”