Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mill - unclassified
Elton, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Elton
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI040-300----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a medieval mill in the townland of Elton has not been identified. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Nicholas Haly of Towreene, an Irish Papist, was the owner of Elton and Brittas which contained 'a Ruinous Castle [LI040-173----], three Cabbins & Mill Seat on it' (Simington 1938, 99).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 May 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.