Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
Kilmademoge, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.