Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mill - corn
Dunnamark Mill-Lot, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunnamark Mill-Lot
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dunnamark Mill (Corn) (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.69525, -9.43938
- SMR number
- CO118-006002-
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
Close to shore where Mealagh River enters Bantry Bay; 2km N of Bantry. Three mills remain, all in ruins; marked 'Tuck and Corn Mills' on OS 6-inch map (1842). Gabled 5-bay, 4-storey mill; additions to rear making L-shaped plan; wheel pit (Wth 2.1m) along SW elevation taking water from river to S. Second mill to S, shares the latters mill race; only S gable survives with external wheel pit (Wth 1.5m). Third building to W is overgrown; 8 bay, 3 storey, 6 bay deep; U-shaped in plan; wheel pit (Wth 2.25m) along SW elevation; functioned as barytes mill in 19th century.
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
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.