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Water mill - unclassified

Letterkenny,Sallaghagrane, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Water mill - unclassified, Letterkenny, Sallaghagrane, County Donegal, 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
Letterkenny,Sallaghagrane
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
NULL
Coordinates
54.94684, -7.74650
SMR number
DG053-044----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

During the seventeenth century plantation of Donegal, 1000 acres in Letterkenny was granted to Captain Crawford. Near to his house Sir George Merbury 'hath erected a market town (DG053-042) called Letterkenny, consisting of 50 thatched houses whereof 13 have clay and stone walls, and one watermill (DG053-044)' (Treadwell 1954-5, 41). The historic town of Letterkenny had a constable and stocks (Hunter 1981, 67). It is possible that the Corn Mill and Mill Ponds marked on the latest ed. of the OS 6-inch map to the W of the Main Street may have been located on the site of the earlier watermill mentioned in the 17th century.

Bibliography
Treadwell, V. W. (1954-5), 'The Plantation of Donegal - A Survey', Donegal Annual, 41.
Hunter, R. J. (1981), 'Ulster Plantation Towns, 1609-41' pp. 55-80, in The Town in Ireland (eds.) D. Harkness and M. O'Dowd.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: : 19 July 2010

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

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