Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mill - corn
Aghamanister And Spital, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghamanister And Spital
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Corn Mill (in Ruins) (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.63304, -8.76874
- SMR number
- CO136-020----
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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
Multi-period roofless 5-storey mill, at head of coastal inlet. Wheel pit within present structure; possibly originally external. Head race arch in W wall; low tail race arch survives in E wall. Bearing-stone in wall on N of side wheel pit. Outbuildings along stream bank to E. Schooners once loaded flour for Cork on quays, just N of nearby Spital Bridge.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.