placenamesSaint John's
Paróiste Eoin
Lewis records a newly built Tudor-style mansion within the parish south of Enniscorthy.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Paróiste Eoin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Saint John's · English · main form
Place & story
Bloomfield and the wooded river bank
Bloomfield was a newly erected Tudor-style house when Samuel Lewis described Saint John’s parish in 1837. He identified its occupant as W. R. Farmar and recorded that the mansion was faced with white granite from Mount Leinster. Another residence, Saint John’s, stood near the northern end of woodland extending for more than a mile along the Slaney’s western bank. These observations describe separate houses and their settings in the Bantry parish south of Enniscorthy, rather than Saint John’s parish in Wexford town. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Saint John's. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- John’s (St.), Bantry, Wexford: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-07-31. How this page was prepared.