Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
High Island, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- High Island
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Mill
- Latest-edition OS map
- (Site of) Mill
- Coordinates
- 53.54399, -10.26157
- SMR number
- GA021-026008-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
To SW of the larger lake and c. 100m SW of the oratory (GA021-026014-). What survives are the drystone foundations of walls on either side of a small stream at the point where it runs over the cliff edge. Rectangular in plan (L > 6.9m, Wth c. 4.4m), these straddle the stream which at this point is channelled through a narrow gap (Wth 1m). Though described by Macalister (1896a, 204) and Herity (1977, 60) as a 'mill-dam', it is more likely to be the remains of a horizontal mill. Some 18m upstream towards the lake are traces of a possible dam comprising a line of boulders (L c. 4m) straddling the stream. Already in disuse by 1680s (Hardiman 1846, 115).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Industrial siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.