Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - unclassified
Moynalty, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moynalty
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78964, -6.88806
- SMR number
- ME011-050001-
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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 the E bank of a NNW-SSE section of the Barora River that is also known as the Owenroe and sometimes as the Moynalty River. Archaeological monitoring (07E0942) of a water scheme at Moynalty village identified a ditch (Wth 2.75m; D 0.8m) c. 6m from the river and running parallel with it. The watercourse has a corner of a stone structure (int. dims 1.75m plus; 1.7m plus) on its W side. The structure appears to have been sunk in the ground and has a stone floor. No dating material was recovered but the structure could be one of the two mills described as 'waste' in the Civil Survey (1655-6) for Co. Meath (Simington 1940, 299). An outflow pipe was diverted and the structure is preserved in situ. The corn-drying kiln (ME011-050002-) is c. 8m to the NE. (Clutterbuck 2009, 4-6; 2012)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 April, 2019
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1940 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. V: county of Meath. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Clutterbuck, R. 2012 Moynalty Village / Ballair / Moynalrty Demesne /Shancarnan. Various. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2009: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 170, No. 653. Bray, Wordwell
Clutterbuck, R. 2009 Archaeological Site Discovery at Moynalty, Co. Meath: Pump Station. Licence No. 07E0942, Unpublished report, CRDS
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.