Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mill - unclassified
Rahara, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahara
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Old Mill
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51458, -8.12308
- SMR number
- RO045-131----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A mill is marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636 in the townland of Coolnageer or Coolnegarry which included what is now Lysterfield townland (Simington 1949 (Athlone (233)), and it is depicted as an L-shaped building and still functioning although described as an 'old mill' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in a low-lying marshy plain on the W bank of a NE-SW stream which was probably the mill-race and c. 300m from the W shore of Lough Funshinagh, a large turlough. Only one fraction of a wall (L 5.2m; H 1.9m; T 0.8m) survives.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1949 Books of survey and distribution. County of Roscommon. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.