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Water mill - horizontal-wheeled

Kilmademoge, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Water mill - horizontal-wheeled, Kilmademoge, County Kilkenny, 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
Kilmademoge
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.71269, -7.24930
SMR number
KK014-041001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

At the bend of a small stream which flows NE-SW. Described by Lucas (1953, 27-8) as, 'a wide deep trench forming the chord of a bend in a small stream. The trench runs approximately N.E.-S.W., is over 700 feet [c. 213m] long and, perhaps 12-18 feet [c. 3.6-5.5m] wide at the top. It is rock cut in places and appears to be about 15 feet [c. 4.5m] deep in some spots...There is a local tradition that a mill was formerly situated here and if the cutting is not a mill race it is difficult to imagine for what purpose it was made'. Lucas (ibid.) concluded, 'it may be one of the ancient mill races... and the site of a mill of the horizontal type'.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 3 June 2020

References

Lucas, A.T. 1953b The horizontal mill in Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 83, 1-36.

Nearby in the register

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

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