Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - unclassified
Gormanstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gormanstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI040-292----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a medieval watermill within the townland of Gormanstown has not been identified. The mill may have been located along a strechc of the Morningstar River in the vicinity of Gormanstown Castle (LI040-066003-). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Edmond Ffox of Bulgaden possessed in the townlands of Adamstown and Gormanstown, 'two decayed Castles [LI040-167-/066003-] 12 Cabbins & a Mill Seat upon it' (Simington 1938, 102).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 February 2020
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.