Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - unclassified
Caheraderry, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caheraderry
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloth Mills
- Latest-edition OS map
- Derry Mill (Corn) (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.96354, -9.31779
- SMR number
- CL015-067----
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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
Within a complex of vernacular buildings including a dwelling, and two out-houses, situated in low marshy pasture surrounded by trees at the confluence of the Caheraderry River and the Dealagh River, on the W bank of the latter, c. 120m SW of Derry Bridge. Depicted and labelled ‘Cloth Mills’ on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. Depicted and labelled ‘Derry Mills (Corn)’ on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. The Down Survey barony map of Corcomroe (1655-8) shows a water mill on the E side of the river in Ballingaddy townland close to the site. A water mill comprising a rectangular two-storey S-facing stone building (6.05m E-W; 5.46m N-S) with a slate roof and three two-over-two sash windows in the façade. The rotten remains of a water wheel survive as does the millrace and sluice gate. In use as an outhouse.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL015-067----_01.jpg Segment of Down Survey map of Corcomroe By. https://downsurvey.tchpc.tcd.ie/
CL015-067----_02.jpg View of mill from W
CL015-067----_03.jpg View of mill from E
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 15 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.