Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - vertical-wheeled
Agharra, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Agharra
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF024-010----
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 1620, as part of the plantation of Longford, Faghny McConnell Farrall was granted lands including 'Lissivare [Agharra] and 1 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 water mill on the Inny River, a short distance to the SE of Agharra church (LF024-007001-). Its precise location has not been identified. A corn mill shown on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map may have been located close to or on the site of this water mill.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
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.
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)