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Water mill - horizontal-wheeled

Kilcornan (Kilconnell By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Water mill - horizontal-wheeled, Kilcornan, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilcornan (Kilconnell By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.30954, -8.71174
SMR number
GA084-085004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Immediately SW of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA084-085003-). The site of a watermill, possibly of the horizontal type (pers. comm. E. Rynne). The 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) shows two roughly parallel banks, c. 25m apart, branching off from the enclosure at SW. These are shown running downhill for c. 150m on a NNW-SSE axis, converging into one towards SSW end. On the same map, a stream is depicted emerging from the fosse of the enclosure at WSW. It is then shown running beneath a small bridge immediately outside it at SW before flowing off downhill between the two banks. These features probably represent the remains of the head race of a watermill (ibid.). Though still intact in July 1970 (CUCAP BDN 70), only faint surface traces now survive. (ASGAP 377:2, 5)

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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Updated by: Olive Alcock

Date of revised upload: 18 November 2016

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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