What is recorded here

Armorial plaque (present location) in Meldrum is an armorial plaque (present location) in Meldrum, County Tipperary, Ireland. The 1622 limestone plaque stands above the doorway of the older portion of Meldrum House and carries the halved arms of the Sall family alongside a lion passant guardant. Initials for Geoffrey Sall and Margaret Corcran appear beneath the shield, matching a Cashel graveslab that records their connection in that same year. The plaque likely moved from Meldrum Castle, where the Sall family held property until at least 1640.

This limestone plaque (H 0.67m; Wth 0.88m) has been inserted into a recess above the doorway into the older portion of Meldrum House (TS061-021002-) which is probably late 17th century in date. The plaque, bearing a date of 1622, has a central recess within a moulded frame which contains a heraldic shield. Beneath the shield are the initials G S on the dexter side and the initials M C on the sinister side. The shield is halved vertically (per pale), the dexter arms are those of the Sall family, showing the attires of a stag fesswise and in chief a portcullis and the sinister a lion passant guardant. The plaque is likely to have come from Meldrum Castle (TS061-56001-) which lies c. 400m to the E and which is possibly an early 17th-century fortified house (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 226). A graveslab (TS061-025094-) in the graveyard (TS061-025035-) of the C of I Cathedral in Cashel bears an inscription to Geoffrey Sall, who died in 1622, and his wife Margaret Corcran (FitzGerald 1902, vol. 5, 249). James Sall, probably a son of Geoffrey and Margaret, was the proprietor of Meldrum Castle in 1640 (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 226). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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