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Inscribed stone

Grange (Shelburne By., Fethard ED), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Inscribed stone, Grange, 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
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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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

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

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