Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - vertical-wheeled
Tennalick, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tennalick
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF023-123003-
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The National Monuments Service's description
A land grant to James McConell Farrall in 1620 included the ‘castle [LF023-123002-], town and lands of Tenelick, with one water-mill' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 481). It is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of Abbeyshrule barony (NLI, MS 719) as a vertical-wheeled mill, to the W of the castle. Its precise location has not been identified but it is possible that the ‘Corn Mill’ shown on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map may have been built on or close to its site or it may incorporate it. Several cut-stone fragments (LF023-123004-), including alternating long and short quoins stones with punch dressing of late 16th/17th-century appearance, are visible on the SE angle of the building. They may be from the earlier water mill or, alternatively, they may be from the castle.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 16 October 2012
References
Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I - Irish patent rolls of James I: facsimile of the Irish record commissioners' calendar prepared prior to 1830, with foreword by M.C. Griffith (Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, 1966)
NLI, MS 719 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey of Co. Longford attested by W. Petty under date 1657. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 22 maps with accompanying terriers, 1786-7. Dublin.