Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
Bealad East, County Cork, Ireland
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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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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Mill - fullingunder 1 mi
- Milling complexunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.