Murrintown

Murrintown Baile Mhúráin
—  Town  —
Murrintown Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°16′52″N 6°31′12″W / 52.2811°N 6.5200°W / 52.2811; -6.5200Coordinates: 52°16′52″N 6°31′12″W / 52.2811°N 6.5200°W / 52.2811; -6.5200
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	Wexford
Time zone	WET (UTC+0)
- Summer (DST)	IST (WEST) (UTC-1)
Area code(s)	053 91
Irish Grid Reference

Murrintown (Irish: Baile Mhúráin), also spelled Murntown, is a small village located in the southeast of County Wexford, in Ireland, close to Wexford town. It is part of the parish of Piercestown.

Murrintown village contains a shop, a pub, a primary school, a R.C. church and a large community centre. The village is bordered by the large and attractive Johnstown Castle estate, containing a large Victorian revival castle built for the Grogan-Morgan family in the early 19th century. It contains a vast mature woodland and three lakes, the largest covering approximately 14 acres (57,000 m²). The property was presented as a gift to the Irish Nation 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.^[1]

Johnstown Castle

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.

External links

• [1] Information on Johnstown Castle
• [2] St. Martin's Gaa Club homepage

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland

References & footnotes

1. ^ http://www.wexfordweb.com/Johnstown/index.htm