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Water mill - unclassified

Ballylanders, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Water mill - unclassified, Ballylanders, 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
Ballylanders
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Ballylanders Mills
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.37831, -8.35758
SMR number
LI049-176----

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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

Ballylanders (Baile an Londraigh) Mills depicted on the 1841 ed. OS 6-inch map may have been built on site of or incorporated fabric of watermill annotated '2 Mills' on the 17th century Down Survey Map of Coshlea Barony (Hib. Reg.).

See attached Down Survey Barony Map showing the 2 Mills at Ballylanders, courtesy of TCD

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 22 November 2022

References

Hibernia Regnum: A set of 214 barony maps of Ireland dating to the period AD 1655-59. The original parish maps have been lost but the Hibernia Regnum maps are preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Goblet 1932, v-x). Photographic facsimiles of these maps were published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton in 1908.

Nearby in the register

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

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