Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- New Ross
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.39630, -6.94052
- SMR number
- WX029-013045-
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
From O’Mahony, A. (1987, 15, No. 5) Attached to the north wall of the Chancel is a tomb (Wth 0.97m; H 2.21m; T 0.12m) with a central cross and an inscription around the edge of the stone. It reads:
Hic. Jacet. Georgius. Dormer. Armiger. quonda. iudex. comitatus. Wexfordiae. ac. burgensis. et. superior huius. villae. novae rospontis. q. obijt. tertio. die. mesis. octobris. a(o) dni. 1594 aetatis vero die 54.
(Here lies George Dormer, Esquire, formerly magistrate of the County of Wexford and burgess and sovereign of this town of New Ross, who died on the third day of the month of October, in the year of Our Lord 1594, aged 54 to the day.)*
*George Dormer was sovereign of New Ross in 1584. (Vigors 1889)
(Mems. Dead (1901-03) vol. 4, 494)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 August, 2012
References
Vigors, P.D. 1889 List of ‘Sovereigns' of the Town of New Ross, Co. Wexford from 1584-1841, also ‘Recorders' from 1658-1825; taken from the Books of the Old Corporation.' Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquraries of Ireland, vol. 19, 312-7.
O'Mahony, A. 1987 St Mary's, New Ross: church and monuments. Wexford. New Ross Historical Society.
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