Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mill - unclassified
Tallaght, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tallaght
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.28749, -6.36537
- SMR number
- DU021-037007-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to sources (Scantlebury, 1960), Saint Óengus the Culldee who was a bishop and writer living in the early 9th century, held to be the author of Féilire Óengussa and possibly of the Martyrology of Tallaght entered Tallaght monastery in disguise as a lay brother. He was given charge of the kiln and mill as one of his early duties. A mill race marked on the first ed. OS OS 6-inch maps may follow the course of an early mill race associated with this mill (pers comm Clare Crowley).
Compiled by: Margaret Keane
Updated on: 14 May 2020
References
Scantlebury, Rev. C.S. 1960 Tallaght - its Monastery and Castle. Dublin Historical Record, Vol 16, 65-77
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Tomb - unclassified (present location)under 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.