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Water mill - unclassified

Bennettsbridge (Shillelogher By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Water mill - unclassified, Bennettsbridge, 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
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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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

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

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

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