Water mill - horizontal-wheeled

The National Monuments Service's description

Southern mills 1 and 4 are dated to Phase 3 and were fed by four mill-races of Phase 3 or earlier, from two watercourses. One watercourse ran S and E (L 119m) from a possible pond in low wet ground to the W of the ridge. Southern mills 2 and 3 date to Phase 3 or earlier but their undercrofts are largely removed. Two tailraces ran NW from Southern mill 4.
A SW-NE headrace for Southern mill 2 was severely truncated by later millraces and ran parallel with and just N of the headrace that supplied Southern mill 1. It widens into a broader channel before dropping into the undercroft (Wth 1.95m; D 1.35m) of Southern mill 2. The undercroft had a metaled floor, but no structural timbers remained, not even post-holes. The tailrace continued NE to the edge of the cutting, filled with marls and gravels, but it was cut by the tailrace of the final Southern mill 5. (Seaver 2009, vol. 1, 72-5)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Copied from web-page: 20 December 2021

References

Seaver, M. 2009 N2 Finglas-Ashbourne Road Scheme Report on Archaeological Excavation of Site 21, Raystown, County Meath. Licence: 03E1229. Unpublished Final report, vol. 1, text. CRDS