Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
Desert (barrymore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Desert (barrymore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.03762, -8.21913
- SMR number
- CO054-031004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On W side of stream, just E of Desert church (CO054-031002-) and graveyard (CO054-031003-) and S of horizontal mill-stone (CO054-030----). Stream bank partially stone-faced. According to local information, "shaft and some other pieces of worked timber" removed from site in recent past. Five fragments of mill-stones from horizontal water mill remain; runner-stone fragment with raised band around central perforation on upper surface and rynd-bar sockets on grinding surface.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.