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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.
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 . 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.
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