Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - vertical-wheeled
Cloghleagh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghleagh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.84638, -8.98834
- SMR number
- CL033-138002-
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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
Listed in the RMP (1996) as ‘Watermill, possible site’. One of two mills (see CL033-138001-) referred to as the ‘Mills of Inish’ in 1656 in the Inchiquin Mss (540) and in the Manor Court Rolls (360) in 1685 as cited by Ó Dálaigh (2012, 16). Also 2 corn mills, a miller’s house and mill park are mentioned in Moland’s survey of 1703 (ibid.). The location of this mill and the name ‘Ennis Mills’ are shown on Ó Dálaigh’s map (2012, 4). Excavations in 1997 (licence no. 97E0424) in advance of the construction of an adjacent building to the SW revealed a wall which may have belonged to the earlier mill complex (Connolly 1998, 6). Further excavations in the same area (licence no. 98E0068) produced no archaeological evidence (Rooney 1999, 10).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 8 July 2014
References
Ó Dálaigh, B. 2012 Irish Historic Towns Atlas, No. 25. Ennis. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin.
Connolly, A. 1998 Mill road, Ennis. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1997: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 7. Bray. Wordwell.
Rooney, F. 1999 Mill road, Ennis. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 10. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Gatehouseunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.