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Water mill - horizontal-wheeled

Dukesmeadows (Shillelogher By., St. Patrick's Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Water mill - horizontal-wheeled, Dukesmeadows (Shillelogher By., St. Patrick's Par.), 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
Dukesmeadows (Shillelogher By., St. Patrick's Par.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.64795, -7.23834
SMR number
KK019-026206-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Worked oak timbers from a horizontal mill, including those from a wooden trough and the floor from a dam, were discovered during construction in 1861 of a reservoir 760m SE of Kilkenny Castle (KK019-026078-) (Robertson 1861, 347-8; Lucas 1953, 6-7). The mill was powered by a spring, known in the 19th century, as 'the Seven Springs'. The trough was subsequently dated by dendrochronology to the 8th century and it can therefore probably be associated with the early medieval ecclesiastical settlement (KK019-026098-) of Domhnach Mór (St Patrick's) 790m to the W.

Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil

Date of upload: 13 November 2020

References

Robertson, J. G. 1861 Proceedings. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 6 (2), 347-8.

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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