Jenkinstown in County Louth preserves an eighteenth-century glebe house. Its parish connections and the neighbouring Bellurgan estate place it within the changing landscape north-east of Dundalk.
⊕Recorded locationJenkinstown54.02142° N · 6.30520° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
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Recorded forms
Baile Sheinicín· Irish · main form · validated name
Jenkinstown· English · main form
Place & story
Jenkinstown's old glebe house
The Old Rectory at Jenkinstown is a substantial house of about 1780, with two principal storeys over a basement. Its front doorway has a fanlight and a carefully dressed stone surround, while sash windows and hipped slate roofs preserve much of its earlier appearance. Extensions around the middle of the nineteenth century enlarged the building into an L-shaped plan; a conservatory was added on the west. The house stands within its own grounds, with lawns and terraced planting, retaining the setting of a clerical residence.[2]
A parish connection beyond the village
The Church of Ireland's parish history identifies Jenkinstown as the location of Ballymascanlan's original glebe house, built in 1781, more than two miles from the church. A new glebe house was built at Ravensdale in 1825 and enlarged in 1850. The parish church itself was substantially rebuilt in 1819 with assistance from the Board of First Fruits. These dispersed residences and church buildings show how parish administration connected several settlements across this part of Louth.[3]
The neighbouring Bellurgan estate
West of Jenkinstown, Bellurgan Park records another influence on the local landscape. Francis Tipping inherited the estate in 1784 and built a larger two-storey house. His leases required tenants to contribute labour to roads and ditches, linking estate management directly with the appearance of the countryside. The architectural garden survey records the surviving arrangement of house, carriage turn, lawns, mature trees, walled garden and outbuildings. Together these features preserve the layout of a neighbouring demesne shaped during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[4][5]
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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Jenkinstown — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
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Jenkinstown, Louth — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
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Jenkinstown, Louth — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
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Jenkinstown, Louth — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
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Jenkinstown, Louth
Published census settlement populations
360people · 2016
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