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Murrintown, 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 (closed since December 2014), a pub, a primary school, an R.C. church, a large community centre and a childcare centre. A new cemetery is under construction (summer 2017). 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 14acre. 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. Teagasc is now responsible for the overall running of the estate. The grounds house the Headquarters buildings of both the Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The attractive early 19th century farm buildings house the Irish Agricultural Museum.SportThe village is home to Forth Celtic Football Club, and the Piercestown village hosts Johnstown Castle Football Club and St. Martin's GAA club.