Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - unclassified
Moanahila, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moanahila
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI025-048----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a medieval watermill in the townland of Monahila has not been identified. Pollardstown Castle (LI025-031----) and watermill are depicted on the 1657 Down Survey map of Coonagh Barony (Hib. Reg.). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that the recently deceased James Butler of Pollordstowne, an Irish Papist, was the owner of 'a Mill and a broken Castle' (Simington 1938, 19).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 8 December 2020
References
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.