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Murrintown

Village in County Wexford, Ireland

Summary

Village in County Wexford, Ireland

Field	Value
name	Murrintown
native_name
native_name_lang	ga
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	Murntown (Murrintown) Post office - geograph.org.uk - 1274636.jpg
image_caption	Murrintown post office
pushpin_map	Ireland
pushpin_label_position	right
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Ireland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Ireland
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Leinster
subdivision_type3	County
subdivision_name3	Wexford
unit_pref	Metric
population_as_of	2022
population_footnotes
population_total	342
population_density_km2	auto
timezone1	WET
utc_offset1	+0
timezone1_DST	IST (WEST)
utc_offset1_DST	-1
coordinates
area_code	053 91
blank_name	Irish Grid Reference
blank_info

Murrintown (), also spelled Murntown, is a small village in the southeast of County Wexford, Ireland, close to Wexford town. It is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Piercestown and lies in the civil parish of Kildavin.

The village contains a pub, primary school, Roman Catholic church, a large community centre, a shop and a childcare centre. A new cemetery opened in February 2018.

History and development

The village and its environs contain a number of buildings dating from the 18th century, several of which are farmhouses. Murrintown House is now a dwelling but in the past has been both a hostelry and a shop. As a hostelry, it was frequented by soldiers during the 1798 rebellion. Beechwood is a Georgian-era estate house sitting on 50 acres of woodland, with various farm buildings. This too played a role in 1798. After having been unoccupied for several years, it was sold in 2017 and the new owners have embarked on a restoration programme.

The village is bordered by the Johnstown Castle estate, containing a large Victorian revival castle built for the Grogan-Morgan family in the early 19th century. It contains a mature woodland and three lakes, the largest covering approximately 14 acre. The property was presented as a gift to the Irish state in 1945 and was later occupied by the Department of Agriculture who established an agricultural institute here and undertook to maintain, but not to alter, the ornamental grounds. Teagasc is now responsible for the overall running of the estate. The grounds house the headquarters buildings of both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The early 19th century farm buildings house the Irish Agricultural Museum.

Sport

The village is home to Forth Celtic Football Club, and the Piercestown village hosts Johnstown Castle Football Club and St. Martin's GAA club.

Transport

The Wexford Bus route from Kilmore Quay to Wexford serves the village several times a day from Monday to Sunday. Bus Éireann also operated route 383 between these locations on Saturdays and Tuesdays (via route 381) to Carrick-on-Bannow but the Bus Eireann services were cut in 2026.

References

"Census Interactive Map – Towns: Murntown". [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland).
"Baile Mhúráin/Murntown". [[Placenames Database of Ireland]].
"Cill Damháin/Kildavin". [[Placenames Database of Ireland]].
"Johnstown Castle - Co. Wexford - Ireland".
"Wexford Bus - Timetable".

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