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House - 16th century

Ballyconor Big, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - 16th century, Ballyconor Big, 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
Ballyconor Big
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.23638, -6.36402
SMR number
WX048-033003-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1811 · 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

Located on a level landscape with a small N-S stream c. 130m to the W. The house was built in 1570 by Dionisius Stafford and his second wife Katherine Synnott of Ballygerry (WX048-017----), according to the Latin inscription of a memorial stone now lost. His first wife was Joan Browne of Mulrankin (WX047-031----) (Hore 1925, 15-6; Browne 1937). The house was largely pulled down c. 1860 (Browne 1937), and is abutting the N side of the tower house (WX048-033001-). It is a rectangular building (int. dims 16.5m N-S; 6m E-W) now reduced to one storey, but only the W wall and the N gable survive, with a blocked chimney-breast (Wth 3.5m) in the gable. One window (Wth 1.47m; H 1.58m) of four ogee-headed lights with the mullions removed, a doorway (Wth 0.93m) and one musket-loop in the W wall are original. Together with the tower house (WX048-033001-) it could form the E side of a bawn (WX048-033005-).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 2 January, 2014

References

Hore, P. H. 1925 The barony of Forth. Part 3. The Past, vol. 3, 9-40.

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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