Newry is a census-designated place in Oconee County, South Carolina, United States. According to the 2010 United States Census, the population of the CDP was 172.

The National Register of Historic Places moreover lists a historic district of Newry.
The borders of the Historic District differ somewhat from the borders of the CDP.

Captain William Ashmead Courtenay (1831-1908) served in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War, and was the mayor of Charleston, South Carolina from 1879–1887. Courtenay and a activity of investors formed the Courtenay Manufacturing Company in 1893 next an initial capitalization of $134,500. The company purchased 350 acres (1.4 km) of estate along the Little River in Oconee County on June 1, 1893. The company dammed the Little River to faculty the mill constructed on the site. They also constructed a village of very nearly 50 cottages, and the mill began manufacturing cotton cloth upon June 14, 1894.

Captain Courtenay’s daddy emigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1791. It is traditionally believed that Courtenay named the village after his ancestral house of Newry which was a small industrial village at the time. The company owned the houses in the town, expanded from the indigenous 50 cottages to not quite 85 residences, two churches, and a total post office and company store, during the time from 1893 to 1910. The mill was unexpectedly profitable, giving its investors a 15% rate of reward in its first year of operation.