Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tide mill - unclassified
Maynetown,portmarnock, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maynetown,portmarnock
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sluice
- Coordinates
- 53.41803, -6.14131
- SMR number
- DU015-015----
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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
According to Flanagan (1984, 108) there was an early tidal mill at the mouth of the river. From the 12th century the Portmarnock corn mill and surrounding lands were owned by the Abbey of St Mary, Dublin. By 1650 there was only one mill, the tide water mill at Connyborough, situated just east of Portmarnock bridge and connected to the land by a causeway. It is shown on Rocque's map (1760). In 1799 Thomas Dickinson of Drumnigh took a lease of the mill and a year later knocked it down, rebuilding to three storeys. By 1867 the mill was unused as it had no water power. Damaged by a storm in 1903 and unroofed by 1912 it was taken down in the 1940s (Ahern 2013, 207). The remains of the mill comprise the footing of walls, sluice gate, 19th century mill race and fragmentary remains of the walls revetting the mill pond and inlet.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 25 January 2015
References
Ahern, G. 2013 Portmarnock: Its people and townland, a history. Fingal County Council Libraries.
Flanagan, N. 1984 Malahide: past and present. Malahide. Privately published.
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.