Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
An Aird Thiar,an Coillín, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Aird Thiar,an Coillín
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Mill
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33126, -9.86883
- SMR number
- GA076-008----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At S end of Loch an Mhuilinn on SW bank of river that flows from it into Cuan na hAirde. The site of a horizontal mill in use until about 1900. Demolished for stone to build nearby bridge but contemporary descriptions of it survive. A second mill — An Muileann Beag — also existed a short distance further upstream, the foundations of which still survive by a bend in the river. (Lucas 1953, 23; Robinson 1985, 36)
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.