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Water mill - horizontal-wheeled

Bealad East, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Water mill - horizontal-wheeled, Bealad East, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Bealad East
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.62910, -8.98377
SMR number
CO134-107----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In boggy pasture, to the E of a stream, in the S portion of an irregularly shaped field. The remains of a horizontal-wheeled mill were discovered during reclamation work carried out here in 1990. The remains comprised a well-preserved wooden penstock (L 3.5m; max. Wth 0.7m; H 0.5m) and an irregularly shaped wooden plank (L 1.3m; max. Wth 0.3m) with three evenly spaced bores situated lengthwise towards one end. The penstock was rebated along both sides, possibly indicating that the penstock was covered with a lid. Some damage had occurred to the splayed end of the penstock, probably during the drainage work. A small area of ground by the waters edge was covered by a large number of cobbles that appeared to be deliberately laid.

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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