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Mill - unclassified

Knocklong East, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mill - unclassified, Knocklong East, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knocklong East
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.42986, -8.40502
SMR number
LI041-061----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The Civil Survey of 1654-56 recorded that Sir Moris Hurly of Cnocklong an Irish Papist was in the possession of 'a ruined Castle (LI041-004005-) a Mill, with two Faires a Courte Leet & Court Baron' (Simington 1938, 233).
Situated on flat poorly drained grassland overlooked by O'Hurley's Castle (LI041-004005-) 130m to SW and Knocklong Church (LI041-004002-) and graveyard (LI041-004003-) 200m to SW. St. Patrick's and St. Paul's Well's (LI041-004006-/008-) located 35m to S. Square-shaped area (approx. dims. 40m N-S x 38m E-W) defined by a scarp and external ditch which appears to have been a water-filled moat before the field was reclaimed. A field drainage ditch intersects monument at NW angle and a second leat or water drainage channel intersects the SE corner. A series of linear drainage ditches are clearly in the field to the N of the square-shaped earthwork. It is possible that the earthwork was created during the land reclamation works visible in this poorly drained field rather than the remains of a medieval moated mill-site. Outline of monument is clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs. No monument depicted at this location on any edition of the OS six-inch maps.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 20 June 2019

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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