Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - unclassified
Aillwee, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aillwee
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08372, -9.12703
- SMR number
- CL005-103----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a well-sheltered rock hollow alongside a short stretch of above-ground river, which rises to the SW and sinks to the NE, within a multiperiod field system (CL005-104001-). Indicated and named ‘site of mill (flax?)’ on Robinsons (1977) map.
A water mill, surviving only as a rectangular cairn (18m NNE-SSW; 8m WNW-ESE; H 1.5-2m). A cashel is locate 90m to the W.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 14 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.