Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mill - unclassified
Millmount,milltown (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Millmount,milltown (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI048-124----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of two grist mills and a tuck mill associated with Milltown Castle (LI048-077----) have not been identified. The 1659 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that William Creagh of Miltown an Irish papist was owner of 'an old ruynous Castle (LI048-177---/LI047-026002-), the Seates of two Gristmills, and the seate of a tucking Mill' (Simington 1938, 238). The 1654-6 Down Survey map of Ballingaddy parish shows that there were two townlands called Milltown in this parish and that Millmount was annotated 'Miltowne' on this map (NLI, Ms 718). The other townland of Milltown lies adjacent to the SE of the townland of Millmount. No castle or mill sites are depicted on this parish map.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 20 August 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.
NLI, MS 718 - National Library of Ireland, Parish maps with terriers, showing forfeited lands in County Limerick, commonly known as the "Down Survey", executed under the direction of Sir William Petty, 1657, and copied by Daniel O'Brien, 1786.