Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - unclassified
Mahoonagh More, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mahoonagh More
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Corn & Tuck Mill
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially outlined
- Coordinates
- 52.43149, -9.01281
- SMR number
- LI036-219----
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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 Corn & Tuck Mill depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map located 560m WNW of Castle Mahon may have been built on the site of or in close proximity to the medieval mill of Mahoonagh. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded in 1640 Colonel Francis Courtnay was the owner of Mahownagh which contained 'a Castle (LI036-170----) on it in good reparation, and a Mill seate' (Simington 1938, 259). The
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 April 2021
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.