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Recorded forms
Baile Uí Mhurúin· Irish · main form · validated name
Ballymurn· English · main form
Place & story
A church with notable sculpture
The Church of the Assumption and Saint Malachy was built in 1832 with financial support from John Maher of Ballinkeele. Its rectangular form and pointed windows belong to the Georgian Gothic tradition. The architectural inventory records later improvements in 1893 and a dedication in 1900. Inside, a Pietà by John Hogan and stained glass signed by Franz Mayer and Company in 1911 give the small village church a wider artistic connection.[2]
A grain store becomes a school
The national school's own history dates its stone building to 1847, when it served as a grain store. Conversion created a two-room school. A prefabricated classroom in the 1980s and two permanent classrooms added in 1994 mark later stages of expansion. The change from agricultural storage to teaching links the village's working buildings with the development of local education.[3]
An earlier church lost in 1798
The parish records an earlier Ballymurn church built in 1774 and burned on 21 June 1798, the day of the battle of Vinegar Hill. The present building therefore represents a later replacement rather than the survival of that eighteenth-century chapel. The parish also identifies the Hogan sculpture as a memorial to Margaret Maher of nearby Ballinkeele, who died in 1838.[4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Ballymurn — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
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Ballymurn, Wexford
Published census settlement populations
524people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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