Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - unclassified
Athlacca South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Athlacca South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Old Tuck Mill
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.45734, -8.66014
- SMR number
- LI039-115----
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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 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that in 1641 David Lacy of Athlacca an Irish Papist was the owner in Athlacca of 'a Mill an orchard and twoe good tatch houses, with a Castle [LI039-113---]' (Simington 1938, 126). 'Old Tuck Mill' depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map may have been built on site of or incorporated medieval mill of Athlacca.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 30 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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.