Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Ballyine, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyine
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47877, -9.10663
- SMR number
- LI028-117----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In his report on the two mill-structures discovered in 1959 (LI028-118---; LI028-119---), Walsh also noted 'considerable evidence of ancient iron-smelting- slag and furnace-bottoms- in the field west of that in which the above structures were discovered' (Walsh 1965, 24). Rynne (1998, 82-3) compared the Ballyine mill with a number of iron-working mills in England, though the recovery of two fragments of millstone from Ballyine suggests that this was a grain mill.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.