Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone
Ballyconor Big, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyconor Big
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.23638, -6.36402
- SMR number
- WX048-033004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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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 Ballyconor Big (WX048-033002-) by Dionisius Stafford and his second wife Katerina Synnott of Ballygerry (WX048-017----) in 1570 (Hore 1925, 15-6) was removed from a position over the door of that house c. 1860. It was kept at Ballyconor 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 (WX047-022003-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 January, 2014
Amended: 20 February, 2014
References
Browne, K. 1937 Sixteenth century stone at Ballyconnor, Co. Wexford. Journal of the Royal Society of Anitquaries of Ireland vol. 67, 298-9.
Hore, P. H. 1925 The barony of Forth. Part 3. The Past, vol. 3, 9-40.
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.