Preban
Civil parish and townland in County Wicklow, Ireland
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Preban is a civil parish and townland in County Wicklow, Ireland.[1][2] Preban townland, which has an area of approximately 1.12 square kilometres (0.43 sq mi),[1] had a population of 54 people as of the 2011 census.[3] The Record of Monuments and Places records an ecclesiastical enclosure, ruined church and graveyard, as well as a number of other possible hut and enclosure sites, within Preban townland.[4]
Preban's Church of Ireland church, dedicated to Saint John and built in 1827, is in the townland of Tomcoyle.[5][6] Listed by Wicklow County Council as a protected structure,[7] it is a church of Tinahely Carnew Parish within the Church of Ireland Diocese of Cashel, Ferns and Ossory.[8]
