Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - vertical-wheeled
Townparks (2nd Division - Tuam), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (2nd Division - Tuam)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Corn Mill
- Latest-edition OS map
- Corn Mill
- Coordinates
- 53.51587, -8.85269
- SMR number
- GA029-182----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · 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
On S bank of the River Nanny, in Chapel Lane, close to the centre of Tuam town (GA029-199----). Known locally as the 'Bridge or Little Mill', this is a four-storey vertical undershot watermill fed by a short race. According to Mayer-Jones (1974, 1-14), it 'was first built in the 17th century by a man called Corcoran' but it may occupy the site of a medieval mill. It originally consisted of two storeys until its renovation in 1922 when it was raised to its present height. Still in working order and open seasonally as a mill museum.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.