Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
Keelaraheen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keelaraheen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.75772, -9.12126
- SMR number
- CO093-073----
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 N bank of Bandon River. Mill (L 2.7m) exposed by mechanical excavator in 1976; 'Five planks of varying sizes... the longest example being 2.43m long, around 28cm wide and 15cm thick were recovered' (Rynne 1988, 329). Dendrochronologically dated to c. A.D. 843 (Baillie 1982, 192).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Ringfort - cashel1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.