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Water mill - horizontal-wheeled

Rathgillen, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Water mill - horizontal-wheeled, Rathgillen, County Meath, 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
Rathgillen
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.83009, -6.74596
SMR number
ME006-059----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located on level, low-lying ground on the NE bank of a small NW-SE tributary of a SW-NE section of the old River Dee, c. 110m from its confluence with the river. The discovery of three rotary querns suggests that there may have been a water mill on the river shortly after it exited the original Moynagh Lough, which was much more extensive originally. It would have utilised the lake as a mill-pond, but there is no visible evidence of such a mill, and its location is not precisely known. The quernstones are kept at a nearby house.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 17 August, 2017

References

Corlett, C. and B. Shanahan 1998 Evidence for a horizontal mill on the River Dee, near Nobber, County Meath. Ríocht na Mídhe, vol. 9, No. 4, 20-27.

Nearby in the register

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

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