Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mill - unclassified
Ballyhowly, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhowly
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Corn Mill
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77865, -8.94266
- SMR number
- MA092-092----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on a N-flowing stream, c. 150m S of Ballyhowley Castle, a tower house (MA092-039001-).
A mill is listed in the Strafford Inquisition of County Mayo (O'Sullivan, W. 1958, 105): '…the castle and town of Bellaghowly, with 3qrs and 3 cartons of land and a cornmill thereunto adjoining…'. The mill is depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an E-W rectangular building, named ‘Corn Mill’, which straddles the N-flowing stream.
The remains consist of the W gable (6.5m N–S; T 0.65m; H c. 5.5m), with slight returns of the N and S walls, located 2m W of the stream. The walls are constructed of mortared stone. There is a square window just below the apex of the gable, at second story/attic level. The proximity of the gable to the stream indicates that the building did straddle the stream.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.