Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed stone
Grange (shelburne By., Fethard Ed), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (shelburne By., Fethard Ed)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19363, -6.83981
- SMR number
- WX050-011009-
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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
A stone which was built into the wall of an outhouse at Fethard castle (WX050-011003-) was identified in the late 19th century as having an inscription. It is described as a ‘purplish red sandstone 29 and a half by 16 and a half by 3 inches (c. 0.76m x c. 0.43m x c. 0.1m)’ (Orpen 1904, 262) and its inscription was compared to a similar inscription on a cross at Carew in Pembrokeshire in Wales. It had a peculiar script, but nevertheless it was accepted as a Latin inscription with the name ‘Margit’ (Vigors 1897). Doubt was cast on the antiquity of the inscriptions (Lynn 1904; 1905), and Orpen (1904, 262-4, 268-9) thought that this stone was probably a copy of the Welsh stone made before 1863, although he was inclined to accept a similar inscription from a stone at Baginbun (WX050-015004-) as a more ancient copy of the geniune Welsh inscription. Both Irish inscriptions are probably 19th century copies of the Welsh one, but that from Fethard castle is now lost.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 April, 2014
References
Lynn, W. H. (1905) The inscribed stones at Fethard castle and Baginbun. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 35, 176-7.
Orpen, H. G. 1905 The inscribed stones at Fethard castle and Baginbun. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 35, 67-71
Vigors, P. D. 1897 Notes on three inscribed stones. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 27, 150-61.
Orpen, H. G. 1904 The Carew, Baginbun, and Fethard castle inscriptions. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 34, 261-70
Lynn, W. H. (1904) The inscribed stones at Fethard castle and Baginbun. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 34, 387-8.
Nearby in the register
- Gatehouseunder 1 mi
- Castle - hall-houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.