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Water mill - horizontal-wheeled

Oughtmama, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Water mill - horizontal-wheeled, Oughtmama, County Clare, 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
Oughtmama
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Mill
Latest-edition OS map
Mill (Site of) (1915)
Coordinates
53.11709, -9.03511
SMR number
CL003-032008-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Named ‘Site of Mill’ on the 1840 OS 6-inch map c. 140m E of the most easterly church (CL003-032004-) and just outside the estimated E extent of the large ecclesiastical enclosure (CL003-032007-) at Oughtmama at the N foot of Turlough Hill. Noted as ‘Horizontal Mill’ on Robinson’s 1977 Burren map, Sheehan (1982, 34) notes that it may explain the presence of a church site in an otherwise sparsely populated mountain terrace. Present remains consist of a grassed-over stony mound (H 0.5-1m) defined at N by a grassed-over wall (Wth 0.7m; H over ext. 1.4m; H over int. 0.5m) and by a later field wall along the E side. A second grassed-over stone wall (L 4m; H 0.4-0.6m; Wth 1.5m) runs parallel to the first 4m to the S. A mill race comprising a wide dry channel (Wth 3.2m) dug out of the S-facing slope and forming a bank to the S (Wth at top 1.9m; Wth at base 9m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 2.5m) extends 130m ENE. Some stone facing is evident on the N face of the bank. The mill race was listed as ‘Earthwork’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996) under the number CL003-032009-.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 19 February 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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