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Memorial stone (present location)

Baldwinstown, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Memorial stone (present location), Baldwinstown, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Baldwinstown
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.23677, -6.58014
SMR number
WX047-022003-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A memorial stone (dims c. 0.6m x c. 0.45m) commemorating the building of the house at Ballyconnor Big (WX048-033004-) by Dionisius Stafford and his wife Katerina Synnott in 1570 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 5, 137) was removed from a position over the door of that house c. 1860. It was kept at Ballyconnor until it was moved to Baldwinstown Castle in 1937 (Brown 1937). A shield on the stone depicts a swan chained at the neck and by one foot. The chained and crowned swan is the ancient emblem of Buckinghamshire in England, but no connection with this county can be established. See this web-page accessed on 20 February, 2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Buckinghamshire The stone was not noticed at Baldwinstown.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 11 October, 2013

References

Browne, K. 1937 Sixteenth century stone at Ballyconnor, Co. Wexford. Journal of the Royal Society of Anitquaries of Ireland vol. 67, 298-9.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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