placenamesGrange Con
Gráinseach Choinn
Small buildings preserve the village’s connections with a country estate and the Tullow railway branch.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Gráinseach Choinn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Grange Con · English · main form
- Grangecon · English · main form · local name
Place & story
The southern gate lodge
The southern entrance to Grangecon demesne has a three-bay gate lodge dated to about 1875 by the National Inventory. Granite quoins frame rendered walls, while timber brackets support the projecting roof. Heraldic panels decorate the side walls. The adjoining entrance retains decorative cast-iron gates and railings. [2]
A modest station
The Eiretrains photographic account records a single platform and siding at Grangecon, with neither goods shed nor signal cabin. A concrete station building replaced the wooden and corrugated-iron structure destroyed during the Civil War in 1922. The account documents the later building’s conversion to stables, alongside surviving railway cottages and a road bridge. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Civil parish
- Ballynure
- Coordinates
- 52.99917, -6.74871 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1166981 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Grange Con. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Grangecon House gate lodge — NIAH 16402001 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Grangecon — railway photographic survey · Eiretrains
- Grange Con village street, as photographed in 2006 illustration: based on a Grangecon, County Wicklow by Sarah777. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.