Water mill - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

In low-lying pasture, on the SE bank of the Groody River at Ballysimon. The 'Mill' annotated on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map was identified in the SMR as possibly located on or close to one of two medieval mills depicted on the Down Survey barony map of the South Liberties (Hib. Reg.) and on the parish map of Kilmurry (NLI, MS 718). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that there was 'a Millseate mearing on the north wth Twolaghten, & the River of Growdin on the Easte' (Simington 1938, 467). However on the Down Survey map these medieval mills were located further upstream to the W. These two medieval mills (LI005-041-/042----) are already listed in the SMR.

See attached Down Survey map of South Liberties Barony showing the location of the two medieval mills on the River Groodin at Ballysimon and the parish map of Kilmurry.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 22 June 2020

References

NLI, MS 718 - National Library of Ireland, Parish maps with terriers, showing forfeited lands in County Limerick, commonly known as the "Down Survey", executed under the direction of Sir William Petty, 1657, and copied by Daniel O'Brien, 1786.

Hibernia Regnum: A set of 214 barony maps of Ireland dating to the period AD 1655-59. The original parish maps have been lost but the Hibernia Regnum maps are preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Goblet 1932, v-x). Photographic facsimiles of these maps were published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton in 1908.

Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1938 The civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IV: county of Limerick, with a section of Clanmaurice barony Co. Kerry. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.