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Mill - unclassified

Castlecoote, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mill - unclassified, Castlecoote, 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
Castlecoote
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.61637, -8.29011
SMR number
RO039-061004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

A watermill is listed in inquisitions of 1584 and 1611 (Connellan 1962-3, 4). A millrace departed from the River Suck just W of the point where the W-E section of the river turns S. It ran S (L c. 200m) at the base of the bluff on which the fortified houses (RO039-061001-; RO039-061002-) were built. It was widened in the 18th century and survives (Wth c. 5m) revetted with stone walls where it passes Castlecoote House (L c. 40m), but defined by an eathen bank (Wth 5m; H 1.5m) on the E side futher S. The mill would have been in Casltecoote village where the it was developed further in the 18th century and no evidence of an early structure survives. The widened millrace could have destroyed the most westerly arch of the bridge (RO039-061003-), and truncated the W side of the spherical chamber of the ice-house (RO039-0611-).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Connellan, A.M.J. 1962-3 Ballygeraghty and Castlecoote. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 30, 3-6.

Nearby in the register

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

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