Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
Meeltraun (denis Kelly), County Roscommon, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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
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- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.