Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
Rathgillen, County Meath, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (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
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.