Newbawn (Irish: An Bábhun Nua, meaning 'the new enclosure')[2] is a small village located in the southwest of County Wexford, Ireland.

[2] There is a poorly preserved Portal tomb (sometimes called a Dolmen) located at Collopswell, near Newbawn,[3] which dates from the Neolithic period.

The area was controlled by the Devereux family of Adamstown and Ballymagir[4] for hundreds of years soon after the arrival of the Normans (1169).

[6] After this time, and particularly throughout the 18th century, a family named Sweetman were very prominent in the Newbawn area.

[citation needed] Today, the village contains a shop and post office, a pub (Foleys Bar), a primary (national) school,[7] a Roman Catholic church and an adjoining cemetery.