placenamesRamsgrange
An Ghráinseach
A nineteenth-century church and the former convent school form a close group in Ramsgrange.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Ghráinseach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ramsgrange · English · main form
Place & story
Saint James’s Church
Saint James’s Catholic Church was built between 1838 and 1843 to a design attributed to Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Changes in 1865 produced its later composition, including the prominent five-stage western tower. The rectangular church has slender Gothic windows and an exposed timber roof; its sanctuary was reordered in 1972. [2]
The former national school
The national school associated with Saint Louis’s Convent was built in 1886. Its T-shaped plan centres on a projecting entrance porch, with sandstone walls, granite details and pointed windows giving it a Gothic character. After closure as a school, it was renovated for another use in 1993; the architectural inventory recorded it as a day centre. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Shelburne
- Civil parish
- Saint James and Dunbrody
- Within
- Ramsgrange
- Coordinates
- 52.24586, -6.91644 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413895 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ramsgrange. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint James’s Catholic Church — NIAH 15617002 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Saint Louis’s Convent national school — NIAH 15617004 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.