Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - unclassified
Coolbaun (coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolbaun (coonagh By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.58143, -8.26108
- SMR number
- LI025-002003-
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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
The precise location of the medieval watermill belonging to Coonagh Castle (LI025-002002-) has not been identified. The mill was probably located on the banks of the Cahernahallia River in close proximity to Coonagh Castle. A curving linear earthwork to the S of the castle visible on aerial photographs may be the remains of a mill race belonging to the mill. In 1655 the Civil Survey recorded that in 1640, 'Mortagh Mc Bryne, Irish Papist of Longford' was in possession of 'a mill and a Castle in repaire' at Coonagh (Simington 1938, 18). A deserted medieval settlement (LI025-002001-) appears to have been located in the fields to the E of the Cahernahallia River and Castletown Church (LI025-004001-).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 08 January 2019
References
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.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.