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Water mill - horizontal-wheeled

Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Water mill - horizontal-wheeled, Inishmurray, County Sligo, 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
Inishmurray
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.43072, -8.65522
SMR number
SL001-022001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the outfall of Inishmurray's only stream, located immediately to E of the Templenaman graveyard (SL001-002007-), and 115m SE of an ecclesiastical enclosure (SL001-001001-).
This is a National Monument (no. 117) in state ownership.
Drystone walls retain the banks of the island’s only watercourse at its outfall to the sea. The walls form three sides of a pit (2.8 m north/south by 2.1 m; 1.3 m high) with a breached, or wave-eroded outer side. Exploratory investigation [099E0381] in 1999 confirmed that the masonry observed in 1998 represents vestigial remains of a mill undercroft but could find no dating evidence or suitable sample for radiocarbon dating. A large land parcel east of this is identified by Heraughty’s (1982, 76) placename map as Fál an Mhuilinn (literally ‘millbank’ or ‘millgreen’). A millstone, possibly from this mill, is now located in Templenatinny church (SL001-001011-) in the ecclesiastical enclosure (SL001-001001-).

The above description is derived from the results of a programme of survey and excavation undertaken in 1997-2000 on Inishmurray and published in:

Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin 2008 Inishmurrary. Monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape. Volume 1: Archaeological Survey and Excavations 1997-2000. Cork. The Collins Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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