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Water mill - horizontal-wheeled

Meeltraun (Denis Kelly), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Water mill - horizontal-wheeled, Meeltraun (Denis Kelly), County Roscommon, 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
Meeltraun (Denis Kelly)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Corn Mill
Latest-edition OS map
Corn Mill
Coordinates
53.68077, -8.71679
SMR number
RO032-049----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · 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

In the valley of an E-W stream. The mill, which had been operated by seven generations of the Gannon family, is described as having a wheel (diam. c. 1.5m) with wooden ladles made from round wood hollowed into cups on the up-stream side. The wheel was laid horizontally and the stream (Wth c. 1.5m) which had been narrowed to a nozzle (dim. c. 0.2m) directed at the wheel. The mill-house is now removed, but the mill-wheel is now at NMI, Turlough, Co. Mayo. (Knox 1906-07, 268-9)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Knox, H.T. 1906-7 Notes on gig-mills and drying kilns near Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26C, 265-73.

Nearby in the register

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

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