Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
Knocknacarragh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknacarragh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26084, -9.10762
- SMR number
- GA093-013----
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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
On the banks of Clybaun Stream to N of Gentian Hill on W outskirts of Galway city. Discovered during drainage work in 1971, the remains consisted of c. 20 pieces of timber from a horizontal mill, including parts of the frame and uprights of the building, two water chutes, and a bung. A sample from the timber produced a 14C determination of c. AD 600 (Topgr. Files, NMI and UCG).
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
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.