Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - unclassified
Bennettsbridge (shillelogher By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bennettsbridge (shillelogher By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Flour Mill
- Latest-edition OS map
- Corn Mill
- Coordinates
- 52.58958, -7.18535
- SMR number
- KK024-033----
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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
A mill is indicated roughly at this location on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Sheelogher/‘Sheelelogher’ (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 487) noted that in 1794, 'the tourist Holmes observed at Bennetsbrige, "near the river a small ancient building, now part of a mill". There is a watermill on the W bank of the River Nore indicated as 'Flour Mill' on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map which may be on the location of the Down Survey mill. It is shown as a 'Corn Mill' on the 1899-1902 revision of the OS 6-inch map. The building is currently used to produce and sell locally made pottery.
See attached:
KK024-033----_01 extract from the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Sheelogher/‘Sheelelogher’ (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 September 2021
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.