Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mill - unclassified
Townparks (nethercross By.), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (nethercross By.)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mill Br.
- Coordinates
- 53.45912, -6.22162
- SMR number
- DU011-034012-
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The Down Survey (1655-6) map shows a mill at the north end of Swords village. The corn mill marked on the first edition OS 6-inch map probably occupies the site. A painting by George Holmes c.1790 illustrates a mill wheel to the south of the bridge which is marked on cartographic sources as the Mill bridge. There is a weir at this point in the river. Photographs of a mill wheel and weir from c.1900 are in the National Library collections. A millrace runs along the west side of Swords Castle.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 08 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Barracksunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.