page_title: Newtown Jerpoint
section_title: Archaeology
hierarchical_section_title: Newtown Jerpoint / Archaeology
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the medieval footprint of Newtown Jerpoint, Jerpoint Park, Co. Kilkenny
context_page_description: 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 St. Nicholas of Myra are said to be buried.
  Belmore House stands at the top of the town.
context_section_description: A survey was commissioned in 2007 by the Heritage Council Ireland and the Discovery Programme that used Lidar to show the extent of Newtown Jerpoint. 
  “One of Ireland’s best surviving examples of a deserted 12th Century Medieval Town” .......  Quote from The Heritage Council of Ireland
caption: View of the Lost Town of Newtown Jerpoint
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