Welcome to Newtowncashel.

A picturesque village near the shores of Lough Ree, Newtowncashel always proudly achieves a high mark in the National Tidy Towns Competition, being national winner in 1980. Newtowncashel won the overall title in 1980 and has come close on several occasions since. In 1998 they won the overall landscape award and were silver medal winners in 2004 & 2005.. Newtowncashel has an abundance of lovely features most notable must be the well maintained stone walls. In many places, they are adorned by bog oak sculptures. These are the work of the very well known, local artist Michael Casey

On Saints Island, five minutes from the village, there is an ancient graveyard with many plaques commemorating the dead that lie here. The ruins of Elseet castle, which overlooks Lough Rea, is apparently near the site of the death of Queen Medhbh. Barley harbour has recently been built to accommodate boat which fish on the lough.