Survey Data
Reg No
15502062
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Scientific, Social
Original Use
Monument
In Use As
Monument
Date
1790 - 1795
Coordinates
304197, 122010
Date Recorded
07/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding monument, erected 1794, on a square plan on benchmark-inscribed plinth. Street fronted on concrete brick cobbled island.
Appraisal
A monument erected 'at the expense of the Corporation [of Wexford] to the late Major Charles Vallotton [1746-93]' representing an important component of the late eighteenth-century built heritage of County Wexford (cf. 15503033). NOTE: Although largely weathered, and now barely legible, the inscription is remembered as: "To the Memory of MAJOR CHARLES VALLOTTON murdered at Wexford in Ireland July 15 1793 whilst in the act of expostulating with a lawless Mob" (The Gentlemen's Magazine 1793, 845).